Instructions
You've gathered evidence, run conversations, and collected signals. Now the task is to turn that raw material into something you can actually act on. That means moving from a scattered collection of notes and impressions to a clear account of what you actually learned — what it points toward, what it doesn't, and what remains genuinely uncertain.
Synthesis isn't the same as summarising. Summarising just compresses what happened. Synthesis involves making a judgment: which findings carry real weight, which are noise, what the evidence collectively suggests. It's harder, and it requires honesty — especially about the things you hoped to find but didn't.
Most people skip this step and jump straight to the decision. That's a mistake. The decision you make is only as good as your u...
