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- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaAbstractionA simplifying layer that hides detail in order to make something easier to use or reason about.
- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaAutomationA task or decision that has been shifted from human execution to a system that performs it without step-by-step human involvement.
- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaConstraintA limit on what is possible in a given context — technical, procedural, or physical.
- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaCorrelated errorA failure mode in which multiple supposedly independent checks share the same underlying blind spot.
- Concept · Skill · Seed ideaDelegationHanding a task to another person or system to perform on one's behalf.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaDistributed knowledgeKnowledge that exists across a group or system rather than in any single place.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaEvidenceWhat is offered in support of a claim, and what makes it count.
- Concept · Skill · Seed ideaExpertiseReliable, practiced skill in a domain, built through sustained exposure to its problems.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaFalsificationThe practice of stating, in advance, what evidence would count against a belief.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaFeedback loopA cycle in which a system's output influences its own future input.
- Concept · Skill · Seed ideaFrictionThe effortful, sometimes slow resistance a task offers, as distinct from its outright difficulty.
- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaHarnessThe scaffolding of tools, checks, and constraints built around a capability to make it usable and trustworthy.
- Concept · Appearances · Seed ideaInstitutionA durable social structure — organization, rule, or norm — that persists across the individuals who make it up.
- Concept · Tools · Seed ideaInstitutional memoryThe accumulated, often informal knowledge an organization retains about its own past.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaJudgmentThe capacity to make a sound call in a situation that has no fully specified rule for it.
- Concept · Skill · Seed ideaKnowledge workWork whose primary output is information, analysis, or decisions rather than a physical product.
- Concept · Appearances · Seed ideaMediationThe interposition of a technology, institution, or representation between a person and an experience.
- Concept · Appearances · Seed ideaProxyA measurable stand-in adopted to track a goal that is itself hard to observe directly.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaRepresentationA stand-in for a thing — a description, model, image, or summary — used in place of the thing itself.
- Concept · Appearances · Seed ideaSpectacleGuy Debord's term for social life mediated by images and representations rather than direct relations.
- Concept · Skill · Seed ideaTacit knowledgeKnow-how that a person has but cannot fully put into words or explicit rules.
- Concept · Knowing · Seed ideaVerificationThe act of checking a claim or output against something independent of the process that produced it.