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oy, it just occured to me that my solution might not match my paper.is feedback a solution for learning from errors? did i mean communication, or reflection, that might be closer to what i was going for. oops. a bunch of interviews talked about peoples unwillingness to share about failure, but now im thinking that i picked the wrong solution. if the definition of feedback is to help someone improve, then thats not the solutuon for people sharing problems. oy, i guess it was psychological safety after all, and no, i never got around to researching that. honestly, i could probsbly knock that out in a couple of days. but this is soooo late in the game to be , wait, these two dont meet up

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