# Write down your hypotheses If you’re moving through uncertain situations ([[The Idea Maze]], etc.) and you know you need to try a number of things that might or might not work, it’s important to have hypotheses so that you actually know whether they worked or not so you don’t waste a lot of time on that specific test. [[Precise communication enables other people to make decisions]], in this case, it’s future you. Precise hypotheses help you know how to act to test them. [[Legibility enables action]]. Even if you have *think* you have a precise hypothesis it’s probably just an imprecise hunch. Writing it down forces you to face paradoxes or ambiguities in the hypothesis. [[Hunch, notion, idea]]. ### Related * [[Notes and statements should be bloody]] * [[Precise language enables progress]] <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Write+down+your+hypotheses) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Write+down+your+hypotheses)