“Slow-rolling mistakes” are usually much more important to identify than “point-in-time blunders”
After reading your post, I wasn’t sure you were right about this. But after thinking about it for a few minutes, I can’t come up with any serious mistakes I’ve made that were “point-in-time blunders”.
The closest thing I can think of is when I accidentally donated $20,000 to the GiveWell Community Foundation instead of The Clear Fund (aka GiveWell), but fortunately they returned the money so it all worked out.
After reading your post, I wasn’t sure you were right about this. But after thinking about it for a few minutes, I can’t come up with any serious mistakes I’ve made that were “point-in-time blunders”.
The closest thing I can think of is when I accidentally donated $20,000 to the GiveWell Community Foundation instead of The Clear Fund (aka GiveWell), but fortunately they returned the money so it all worked out.