Quick Check

1. What's the difference between describing a process and describing an outcome? Why does the difference matter for how an executor approaches the work?

2. Take a task you recently instructed someone (or an AI) to do. How would you reframe it as outcome-first direction? What would you have to clarify about what you actually wanted?

3. What makes writing a real outcome brief uncomfortable? What does the discomfort reveal about your own thinking?

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