Welcome to Day 4 !
Today, you will identify the signals, details, and patterns that inform your decisions.
Experts do not make decisions without information
Yesterday, you identified several points where your judgment changed the direction of the work. Today, you will look at what informed that judgment.
A clue is something you observe and interpret. It might be a phrase, behavior, number, omission, inconsistency, sequence, change, or condition.
The clue matters because experience has taught you what it may indicate.
People with less experience can see the same information and assign a different meaning to it. They might overlook a detail, treat every signal as equally important, or act before recognizing a pattern.
When an expert says, “Something about this did not look right,” the feeling often rests on clues that have not yet been named.