ThinkingBest with Claude

Pre-mortem

When to use it

Catch failure modes early

The prompt

Run a pre-mortem on [plan/project]. Assume it failed badly in 6 months. List the top 8 reasons it failed and the 3 cheapest things I can do now to de-risk each.

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