Describe the current state and its drift
Field guide / 07 of 07
Change.
Make the field legible.
Change becomes legible through a loop: observe conditions, form a provisional account, act, receive feedback and update the account.
Change
01Observe
02Classify
03Infer
04Act
05Collect feedback
OBSERVE → RELATE → REVISE
The reading frame
What to look for
before you decide.
What is changing — and what would change our mind?
- 01Observe — encounter a condition
- 02Classify — make a provisional distinction
- 03Infer — form a working account
- 04Act — test a move in the field
- 05Collect feedback — receive consequence
- 06Reconstruct — update the account
In practice
Three useful
moves.
Name the next reversible move
Specify what feedback would revise the account
Calibration notes
A transition is not necessarily progress
Recalibration is not an admission of failure