Criticism Self Criticism

This is a structured post-mortem framework that forces you to review your work honestly after delivery or at review checkpoints. It walks you through a six-step self-critique process: examine your own work first, be specific about what went wrong, base criticism on facts, focus on improvement rather than blame, welcome feedback from others, and make it routine. The output is a formatted audit report with concrete problems, root causes, and action items for next time. It's directly inspired by Mao's writings on criticism and self-criticism as organizational practice. Use it when you've shipped something and need to look at it with clear eyes, or when you keep making the same mistakes and need to break the pattern. It won't let you get away with vague self-assessment.