A small practice for the crowded schedule

Original practice · Optional exercise · Useful disagreement

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A proposed meeting time is convenient for only some participants.
2. Ask for constraints before describing the others as unhelpful.
3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.