The cheapest culture diagnostic is a walk. Five stops, five minutes, alone. You ask nobody anything: you look as if you were walking in for the first time and had to decide whether you would work here.
The rule: note what you see, not what you know. If you catch yourself
explaining ("yes, but that's because…"), cut the explanation and write only what
someone who doesn't know the story would have seen. Explanations are exactly what
the stranger doesn't have.
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Complete the five stops
Each stop is rated from 1 to 5. The score has no
absolute value; the value is in the stop with the lowest rating.
5–9 The stranger leaves with a bad impression. Nothing you noted costs much to fix, it is just that nobody has looked with these eyes for a long time.
10–15 You can tell nobody is looking. Functional, but not chosen.
16–20 Someone cares, but unevenly. That usually says who has time, not what matters.
21–25 The place says the right things about you. Check whether the rating comes from what you saw or from what you know is behind it.
Then pick the thing from the stop with the lowest rating, the one you could photograph, and run it through the CADRU method at the next meeting.
Facilitare.ro · Bogdan GrigoreStep 1 of the CADRU method