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A small practice for the rushed approval

A practical exercise: Provide the concrete version and time to review it.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Useful disagreement

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 colleague is asked to approve something they have not seen.
  2. Provide the concrete version and time to review 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.

Try a question

What are you asking another person to agree to, and can they comfortably decline?