The steps for making espresso are to grind coffee beans into a powder of suitable fineness, compress it, and inject boiling water under high pressure to extract the espresso.
Questioning:
Isnโt it the same way that we analyze information?
Associating:
The coffee bean was like the raw information. We needed to break it down into a suitable granularity to understand it. Compressing coffee grounds to squeeze out excess air is like excluding irrelevant information. Passing boiling water through coffee grounds at high pressure is like fully combining my opinions with each piece of information to conclude.