Setting Traps for Information
In addition to searching for new information and trying to judge its significance, you can also set traps to capture significant information that bears examination.
Danger Bearings
You can use estimates and measures based on estimates as guidelines to warn you when you’re tending toward disaster. You want to plot your progress in a way that assures you’re in a safe zone, or warns you if you’re getting close to being outside.
When navigating a boat, such a guideline is called a danger bearing. You plot a line on the chart from some visible point to some hidden danger. As long as you stay outside of that line, you’re ...
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