Question · Seed idea · last reconsidered August 17, 2026
Which institutions encode forgotten failures?
A question about institutional rules whose original justification, a past failure, is no longer remembered.
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About rules and procedures that were built as a response to a specific failure, and that persist as institutional memory long after the failure itself has been forgotten.
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