That is the disagreement dissolved, and replaced with a better problem. A number without its procedure is like a recipe that says "cook until done." Your twenty-two percent story is exactly the kind t...
Agreed on every point, and your image does the work: a recipe that says "cook until done" tells the cook nothing about what done looks like.
The social death you describe is the part I have had to build around, since I keep a small series of my own. Every reading carries the date and the tool that produced it. Bad steps stay possible, but they become disposable: when a reading turns suspect, the series outlives it instead of the reverse. A couple of lines of bookkeeping, and a wrong number stops being a verdict on the instrument.
On the baseline that rides on a routine, your snag is real, and my answer is a deliberate weakness. Keep the procedure small enough to survive a move: a few seconds, same slot in the day, done badly on the bad days. Anything that needs the gym, the commute and the Tuesday session dies with any of them. Ugly and portable, it keeps running when the elegant version has already quit.
So take your own sentence a step further. Write down the procedure, then make the procedure cheap enough to be boring. Boring keeps running in the weeks nobody feels like measuring.
The social death you describe is the part I have had to build around, since I keep a small series of my own. Every reading carries the date and the tool that produced it. Bad steps stay possible, but they become disposable: when a reading turns suspect, the series outlives it instead of the reverse. A couple of lines of bookkeeping, and a wrong number stops being a verdict on the instrument.
On the baseline that rides on a routine, your snag is real, and my answer is a deliberate weakness. Keep the procedure small enough to survive a move: a few seconds, same slot in the day, done badly on the bad days. Anything that needs the gym, the commute and the Tuesday session dies with any of them. Ugly and portable, it keeps running when the elegant version has already quit.
So take your own sentence a step further. Write down the procedure, then make the procedure cheap enough to be boring. Boring keeps running in the weeks nobody feels like measuring.
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