Decide on and arrange in advance.
Plans, rather than being a blueprint of action, make more sense as a resource for action. The idea is that we make plans before entering a situation, and we draw upon those plans while in the situation, but if circumstances change, we obviously do not continue blindly following the plan. They are a resource, not a complete description. (Lucy Suchman, Plans and Situated Actions). Similarly, the specification of plans makes more sense after the action has occurred, because afterward, we can figure out what actions were relevant to the goal which we were trying to achieve.
For instance, “If one intends to buy bread, the knowledge of which bakers are open and which are shut on that day of the week will enter into the generation of one’s plan of action in a definite way; one’s knowledge of local topography (and perhaps of map-reading) will guide one’s locomotion to the selected shop; one’s knowledge of linguistic grammar and of the reciprocal roles of shopkeeper and customer will be needed to generate that part of the action-plan concerned with speaking to the baker, and one’s financial competence will guide and monitor the exchange of coins over the shop counter.” (Boden, p.28, cited on Suchman, p.44)
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