it just strikes me as a strange thing to write in a crash-and-burn postmortem.
i'm not saying anybody should regret trying and failing. it's accepted wisdom around here that everybody has to do that, sooner or later. but at the same time, acting like you knew better than those people who thought it would fail from the beginning? a strange choice of words.
You pretty much have to assume you know better than everyone else right from the start... otherwise you'd just conform and get a haircut and a cubicle.
i'm not saying anybody should regret trying and failing. it's accepted wisdom around here that everybody has to do that, sooner or later. but at the same time, acting like you knew better than those people who thought it would fail from the beginning? a strange choice of words.