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estimating-dimensionality.md

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 # Estimating Dimensionality
 
-I think of most things as existing in n-dimensional space.
+## Flaws of Traditional Estimating Methods: Enforced Linearity
 
-## Generic
+Something that I've realized that really bothers me
+about the the traditional methods
+(e.g. database-based takeoff, audit-trail-type-abstraction)
+is the the _enforced linearity_,
+which is at odds with the reality of takeoff.
+
+No matter how you slice it,
+the user is thinking about your takeoff in some linear fashion.
+Whether it's the takeoff creation date, or however they've sorted it,
+Really date is the only useful measure,
+but it's also useless, because you forget stuff.
+
+The fact that forgetting something
+totally disrupts a previously logical timeline of takeoffs
+means that you stress about every single takeoff;
+Instead of being in a flow state,
+you have to be thinking 10 steps ahead.
+
+I mean, I do, because I care about that sort of thing.
+I suppose other people may not be as concerned,
+but that doesn't really justify it.
+
+The problem is that there's nothing linear about electrical installations,
+at best it's a directed acyclic graph.
+You can almost represent that linearly
+if you go down each branch to the end
+and then pick a new new line,
+but that's unideal.
+
+## Spatial Indexing
+
+Scope exists in a three-dimensional space,
+more if you suppose phases and bid options
+as having a position on time and decision space axes respectively.
+
+The most idiomatic alternative to time-indexed takeoffs
+would be to represent them in the space of the drawings,
+then only extend them as necessary.
+
+### Generic
 
 Negative <-> Positive
 
 Previous <-> Next
 
-## Space
+### Space
 
 Down <-> Up
 
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 Ana <-> Kata
 
-## Time
+### Time
 
 Past <-> Future
 Prin <-> Kat
 
 Before <-> After
 
-## Option
+### Option