A meeting structure designed to eliminate groupthink and coercion by separating the discovery of ideas from the discussion of them. It ensures independent thinking and focuses meeting time solely on areas of disagreement.

"The best way to get somebody's opinion is independently of other people's opinions... I want people to stop talking to each other so much."

An enhancement to the standard pre-mortem that moves beyond simply imagining failure to establishing pre-committed actions based on specific negative signals.

"A pre-mortem, it's great only if you set up kill criteria. Commit to actions that you're going to take if you see those signals."

A mental model to debunk the idea that some decisions (like VC investments or long-term product bets) require years to evaluate. It involves identifying short-term proxies that correlate with long-term success.

"The way you choose to shorten the feedback loop is to say, what are the things that are correlated with the outcome that I eventually desire?"