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Thinkie: What Fact?

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Kent Beck
Nov 09, 2026
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“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

— Sherlock Holmes, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four

Pattern: I’m faced with a situation that just doesn’t make sense.

Transformation: Ask myself what fact would, if true, cause the situation to make sense.

What Fact? is where the fundamental Think…

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