Learning: Let the Interviews Rewrite Your Hypotheses

Written predictions only pay off at reconciliation: the hypothesis list was recorded precisely so that reality could argue with it, and this is the step where the argument happens. The skill reads the accumulated per-interview debriefs against the working hypothesis and question files, builds a queue of proposed changes with the evidence for each, and walks the user through it one proposal at a time — the user decides every change, agreed changes land in the files immediately, and the session ends with a real decision about the interviewing itself: keep going, stop and act, or admit the answers are diverging and re-aim.

The mental model

The three-tier update rule

Not everything heard deserves a reaction, and the tiers are the core of this step: