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A small practice for the shopping detour

A practical exercise: Write the required feature before comparing the available choices.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Attention with edges

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 search for one household item becomes a tour of suggestions.
  2. Write the required feature before comparing the available choices.
  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.

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Which piece of context will matter when somebody returns to this later?