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A small practice for the return route

A practical exercise: Give the recipient a clear route for corrections.

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: An error is found after the handoff and nobody knows where to send it.
  2. Give the recipient a clear route for corrections.
  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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