asswards check
A moment of self-audit where someone pauses to ask whether a plan, process, or decision is fundamentally backwards.
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A moment of self-audit where someone pauses to ask whether a plan, process, or decision is fundamentally backwards. Used online when calling out reversed priorities or upside-down logic before things go further wrong.
Before you spend more money fixing the symptoms, do an asswards check — the whole strategy is reversed.
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