The Postmortem Went Viral

Ruan Qingdai came to see him wearing something extremely ordinary, carrying an old canvas bag, like she had just turned off her commute and dropped by on the way home. She had worked on the same floor as Pei Yanzhou years earlier, mostly around project support. She did not talk much, but she was steady. His memory of her had always been “the person who can turn messy data into a clean table.” So when she showed up again years later, her first sentence was: “Your postmortem is useful, but it still needs one chart.” “What chart?” “Position size versus drawdown.” She opened her laptop and showed him a rough sketch. “Right now you’re telling a story. Stories create empathy, but they don’t change behavior.