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A small practice for the stale checklist

A practical exercise: Review one real attempt and remove the steps that no longer apply.

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: A checklist contains steps for a process that has changed.
  2. Review one real attempt and remove the steps that no longer apply.
  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

Where would a useful pause belong between the problem and the response?