What is perspective taking?

Example: You design an API and think it's clean. A frontend engineer points out the response shape forces three extra transformations. A security engineer flags an unvalidated parameter you never considered. A customer support lead notes the error messages are meaningless to end users. None of these people are smarter than you — they are differently positioned. Each perspective reveals structure you literally could not see from where you stand.

This concept is part of Observation Without Judgment in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for observation without judgment.