Original practice · Optional exercise · Room for play
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: A private joke is about to be shared with someone outside its context.
- Check whether the humour is kind and understandable to that person.
- 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.
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