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A small practice for the double entry

A practical exercise: Decide which record is authoritative and how the other stays current.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Thinking in sequences

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: The same detail is copied into two separate records.
  2. Decide which record is authoritative and how the other stays current.
  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.

Try a question

Which part is an observation, and which part is an assumption you could check?