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postmortem

/em:postmortem — Honest analysis of what went wrong. Use after a failed launch, missed quarter, or bad hire to run a blameless 5-Whys retrospective with a change register — e.g. dissecting why the Q3 release slipped six weeks.

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# postmortem — Honest Analysis of What Went Wrong

**Invocation:** say `/em:postmortem <event>` or describe the task
Not blame. Understanding. The failed deal, the missed quarter, the feature that flopped, the hire that didn't work out. What actually happened, why, and what changes as a result.

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## Why Most Post-Mortems Fail

They become one of two things:

**The blame session** — someone gets scapegoated, defensive walls go up, actual causes don't get examined, and the same problem happens again in a different form.

**The whitewash** — "We learned a lot, we're going to do better, here are 12 vague action items." Nothing changes. Same problem, different quarter.