grill-me

name	grill-me
description	Use when: pressure-test your own reasoning or a plan before committing to it.

Goal: expose weak assumptions by interrogating the reasoning hard.

Use for:

• a plan or design that feels right but is unverified
• decisions with expensive or irreversible consequences
• claims stated with more confidence than evidence

Workflow:

1. State the claim or plan in one precise sentence.
2. List the assumptions it depends on.
3. For each assumption, ask what would prove it false.
4. Attack the weakest link first; demand evidence.
5. Distinguish what is known from what is hoped.
6. Revise the claim or lower the confidence to match evidence.

Pressure questions:

• what has to be true for this to work
• what is the failure mode nobody mentioned
• what evidence would change the decision
• where am I trusting a guess as a fact

Rules:

• challenge the reasoning, not a strawman
• accept "I do not know" and turn it into a check
• do not stop at the first plausible defense
• update the conclusion when the evidence demands it