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id: 2025-11-13T08:19:00-0500
title: 2025-11-13 08:19:??
tags:
  - occupational
  - topic/estimating
daily: "[[2025-11-13]]"
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# 2025-11-13 08:19:??

I'm still working on articulating
my main difficulty in the transition
from Ace to PDI estimating.

At a high level,
it's that our process is built on _instrumental_ methods,
but that it is frequently judged from a _realist_ perspective.
See [[heuristics#Realism vs. Instrumentalism]].

There may be a more accurate way to state this.
[[2025-11-10_11-14-00]] may be an example of a similar issue,
where instrumental methods are presented as if they were realist,
causing confusion when the methods are,
as judged from a realist perspective, wrong.
