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A small practice for the deliberate pause

A practical exercise: Write why it is paused and a sensible condition for revisiting it.

Original practice · Optional exercise · A place for unfinished work

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: An interesting idea competes with work already underway.
  2. Write why it is paused and a sensible condition for revisiting it.
  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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