Original practice · Optional exercise · Thinking in sequences
Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.
- Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: The same detail is copied into two separate records.
- Decide which record is authoritative and how the other stays current.
- Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
- Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.
Try a question
Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?