something called the Hermeneutic circle, which Ryan Kitchens described as looping on the same information continually with compounding ‘lenses’. This is cognitively taxing, but useful to gain insights that wouldn’t have been visible from your own initial perspective.

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The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents

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The process of transforming your understanding of the part and the whole through iterative recontextualization.