As a guy who has been involved in many IT projects, my first inclination at the end of a project, or major event, is to get together with others and share and document “lessons learned.” Documenting issues is important in identifying risks for future projects — so that problems can be avoided, mitigated, or faced, if possible. We’ve had some pretty severe disasters over the past year: Fukushima, the Macondo Oil Spill, and from my POV the Tea Party “Empire Strikes Back” disastrous election of 2010; and now the result of the Wisconsin Recall vote. Looking at all these events all I can say, is that I don’t see too many people learning the right lessons. That needs to be remedied.