What is red teaming?

Red teaming is a concept in personal epistemology: Deliberately try to break your own mental model before relying on it.

Example: You've built a schema that says 'senior engineers resist process changes because they're set in their ways.' Before you design an entire change management strategy around this belief, you red team it: What if they resist because the proposed processes actually are worse? What if they resist because they've seen three similar initiatives fail? What if the ones who seem resistant are actually the ones with the most context? Each attack reveals a different failure mode in your original schema — and the schema that survives this assault is dramatically more useful than the one you started with.

This concept is part of Phase 15 (Schema Validation) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for schema validation.