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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Log schema revisions in real-time rather…

Log schema revisions in real-time rather than retrospectively, because delayed documentation becomes narrative construction rather than accurate provenance.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives strongly from automatic narrative generation (Automatic Narrative Generation Precedes Conscious Evaluation), hindsight bias (Hindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity), and reconstructive memory (Memory is reconstructive, not reproductive—humans rebuild…). It prescribes temporal discipline in capture. The high confidence reflects the direct derivation from well-established biases.

Source Lessons

Track what triggered the update

Record what new evidence or experience caused you to revise your schema. Every schema update has a trigger — a specific observation, conversation, failure, or piece of evidence that shifted your model. If you do not capture that trigger at the moment of change, you lose the provenance of your own thinking. Lost provenance means you cannot reconstruct why you believe what you now believe, cannot evaluate whether the change was warranted, and cannot detect patterns in what kinds of evidence actually move you.

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