-But there's a subtle trap in the post-mortem: they're a recollection of events from a vantage point of a successful (or unsuccessful) project. They're from a vantage point of someone who has made a thing, and it was successful enough that you are reading about that project's ups and downs. They're written from a vantage point where the success of the project is a foregone conclusion (or the vantage point where the project is was important enough to document why it was a failure, or didn't live up to the expectations of those involved). It can give you a false-sense that what you're working on is not as important as the things that other people are working on. But we don't know the importance of our project in real-time. It may never see the light of day or it might be something that changes the world. We can't know that while we're working on it (though we can have a sense of whether or not we _feel_ our work is important or not).
+But there's a subtle trap in the post-mortem: they're a recollection of events from a vantage point of a successful (or unsuccessful) project. They're a recollection of someone who has made a thing, and it was successful enough that you are reading about that project's ups and downs. They're written from a perspective where the success of the project is a foregone conclusion (or from a perspective where the project was important enough to document why it was a failure, or why it didn't live up to the expectations of those involved). It can lead you to believe that what you're working on is not as important as the things that other people are working on. But we don't know the importance of our project in real-time. Even the folks in the post-mortem didn't know if their project will work or be successful as they're working on it. Our projects may never see the light of day or it might be something that changes the world. We can't know the value of what we're working on while we're working on it (though we can have a sense of whether or not we _feel_ our work is important or not).