From The Certainty Crisis · Chapter 7 · One-Degree Shifts

The One-
Degree Journal

Clarity comes from motion, not from waiting. This is where the small moves get recorded — each one a question you didn't know the answer to, tested cheaply enough that being wrong is just learning. Not a to-do list. A record of what you found out by moving.

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Log a one-degree shift

The rule: small enough that being wrong costs almost nothing, real enough that the outcome teaches you something. If you already know how it turns out, it isn't an experiment.

Frame it as a genuine unknown, not a task. "Will async standups keep us aligned?" — not "Run async standups."
The smallest version that produces a real signal. One week, one customer, one conversation.

No experiments logged yet. The first one-degree shift is the hardest — it's the move that turns waiting into motion. What's one thing you've been unsure about that a small test could settle this week?

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