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The useful detour

The indirect path sometimes knows more than the efficient one.

An ink path leaves a grid, circles a mossy stone and returns
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Efficiency is excellent at answering a question already settled.

A detour is how a better question enters the room.

The difficult part is not deciding whether detours are useful. It is noticing when the road you are protecting has become the problem.

Margin note

A protected road can become the obstacle.

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S2W ORIGINAL NOTE

Original S2W editorial object.

Provenance type
original observation
Confidence
editorial

Did the thought land?

Another way into this thought.

Conversationblue

Everyone agreed in seven minutes.

Efficient.

The meeting that agreed too quickly

Consensus arrives before understanding.

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