Here are some questions to ask.

• Can I increase the amount of information I get from the context?
  
  
  Are you looking for a partner? Talk to people who are happily married and ask them what they did. Run experiments. Are you unsure about having a kid? Ask if you can babysit your cousin's kid.


• My preconceptions are a filter that reduces the amount of inf

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Improving a messy product is hard. The closer you look at the ugliness, the more you want to throw it all out and start over. But that's not always possible. We can't stop the world and redesign everything.

What helps us make meaningful progress is a watertight "frame" — a narrowly defined problem, outcome, and time frame. When we know why we are ch... See more