Developing arguments and ideas bottom-up instead of top-down is the first and most important step to opening ourselves up for insight. We should be able to focus on the most insightful ideas we encounter and welcome the most surprising turns of events without jeopardizing our progress or, even better, because it brings our project forward.

We postpone the decision on what to write about specifically and focus on building a critical mass within the slip-box. Instead of having the hypothesis in mind all the time, we want to:

• Confirm that we have separated tasks and focus on understanding the text we read

• Make sure we have given a true account of its content

• Find the relevance of it and make connections. Only then do we take a step back to look at what developed, then make a decision on what conclusions are to be drawn from that.

The slip-box forces us to be selective in reading and note-taking, but the only criterion is the question of whether something adds to a discussion in the slip-box.