Lessons tagged “reasoning”
4 published lessons with this tag.
Compound ideas hide dependencies
An idea that looks like one thing is often several things fused together, each carrying unstated assumptions that silently constrain what you can do with it.
Separate claims from evidence
A claim and its supporting evidence are different objects that should be stored separately.
Capture decisions and their reasoning
Record not just what you decided but why — because your future self will rewrite the reasoning after the fact, and you will never notice it happening.
Externalize your reasoning chain
Writing out the steps of your thinking exposes gaps invisible from inside your head. Internal reasoning feels continuous — externalized reasoning reveals the jumps, the missing warrants, the unstated assumptions. The reasoning chain you think you have is not the reasoning chain you actually have until you write it down.