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On a big, complicated project, don’t plan the first move. Write the outcome, run three reasoning lenses, and let them discover the cheapest evidence that would move the most. Three loops on one merger: call the customers, pull the warranty file, re-cut one number. … readRinse and Repeat
A worked run of three reasoning lenses on one axiom, a merger press release, with a negotiation round between them. The lesson for advanced students: sort the result into settled, resolved and yours, and the last bin is your job. … readSettled, Resolved, Yours
First principles reasons up from the bottom and analogy reasons across from today. Add a third direction, down from an assumed outcome, run all three at once, and the places where they disagree are the diagnosis. … readWhy Isn’t It So?
Obvious is ordinarily a property of a claim: it is plainly there, and anyone who looks sees it. Read at the third sentence of the axiom, the word reports a landing, a claim meeting an expectation that already held it, and says nothing about what the claim can be made to answer to. An axiom differs by having its ways of failing in view. … readWhat Is Obvious
One axiom: the past is immutable. One rule: He loves Her. Everything else is derived — including the point at which the Past stops being a place and becomes a node that is real and does not exist. … readThe Immutable Past