Sounds like a lesser version of Kahneman’s pre-mortem with a different name (that I don’t see as too appropriate to be honest, since this is not really what a strawman is).
I actually find it more effective than the pre-mortem (and the closely related pre-hindsight technique I learned at CFAR). While those techniques are certainly effective, I think it’s easy to be too charitable to oneself, even in failure. This version has explicit safeguards against that possibility.
As for the name, certainly it is not fully accurate. That said, being memorable and salient is quite important. The primary failure mode of this sort of technique is not remembering it in the heat of the moment, so I selected a name optimized for being shocking and memorable rather than fully accurate.
Sounds like a lesser version of Kahneman’s pre-mortem with a different name (that I don’t see as too appropriate to be honest, since this is not really what a strawman is).
I actually find it more effective than the pre-mortem (and the closely related pre-hindsight technique I learned at CFAR). While those techniques are certainly effective, I think it’s easy to be too charitable to oneself, even in failure. This version has explicit safeguards against that possibility.
As for the name, certainly it is not fully accurate. That said, being memorable and salient is quite important. The primary failure mode of this sort of technique is not remembering it in the heat of the moment, so I selected a name optimized for being shocking and memorable rather than fully accurate.