Notes

Notes on
unfinished thinking

Short notes on organising, testing and developing ideas that are not finished yet. Each one takes a single question a person might type into a search box and says what the evidence supports and where it stops.

  1. How do I stop going round in circles on the same idea?

    You stop going round in circles by giving every sitting with the idea one question, a time limit and a written output, and by counting the sittings that produce nothing new. When repeats pile up, change the idea under pressure, set it aside until a fixed date or drop it, and treat each of those as a decision you can write down.

  2. How do I turn a vague idea into something I can test?

    Turn a vague idea into something testable by writing it as one claim that could be false, finding the assumption that would sink it, and designing a small check with a stopping result written in advance. Each of the four written steps removes words nobody has defined, so the idea can be shown wrong before you build or write anything large.