Never put your name on it untested.

Find the hole in your argument before opposing counsel does.

Run the pre-mortem before reality runs it for you.

Kill the deal on paper before you wire the money.

Bulletproof the recommendation before the steering committee sees it.

Find the claim that gets you screenshotted before it ships.

Pressure-test the bet before engineering builds the wrong thing.

Survive the design crit before it’s in front of real users.

Get the staff-engineer code review before you open the PR.

Find the weak line before the client circles it in red.

Catch the error and the wrong assumption before sign-off.

Stress-test the recommendation before the client acts on it.

Stress-test the literacy of your patient-facing writing.

Find the design flaw before it’s poured in concrete.

Run the failure analysis before the part fails in the field.

Pre-empt Reviewer 2 before you hit submit.

Mark your own work like a tough examiner would.

Find the line that becomes the headline before you send it.

Pressure-test the people decision before it becomes a complaint.

Rehearse the objection before the deal is on the line.

Stress-test the deal before the money moves.

Find what kills the trade before the market finds it.

Survive the fact-check and the libel read before you publish.

Catch the error and the confusion before it reaches the class.

Think like the attacker before the attacker does.

Find the leak in the analysis before it ships a bad decision.

Pressure-test the big idea before the client kills it in the room.

Stress-test the hire and the message before you commit.

Find the unintended consequence before the policy ships it.

Pressure-test the case before the funder reads it.