According to SK2 on LessWrong, learning from mistakes requires more than reading surface-level lessons. Most stories teach obvious takeaways—like diversifying investments or planning for backups. The real value comes from understanding why smart people make mistakes in the first place: failed pattern recognition, competing heuristics, overlooked blind spots. SK2 is proposing a mistake postmortem discussion group where people share decisions alongside their reasoning, allowing others to analyze the deeper thought patterns that led to errors. This shifts focus from what went wrong to why.

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