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Maintain an explicit registry of core assumptions with

Maintain an explicit registry of core assumptions with scheduled review cycles to prevent invisible obsolescence.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives from Belief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence (systems maintain beliefs even when basis is eliminated), No Direct Access to Reality (all knowledge is mediated through abstraction), and When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good (when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be good). It prescribes proactive assumption review to detect schema debt accumulation.

Source Lessons

L-1634

Organizational learning

An organization that cannot update its schemas in response to feedback is dying — it is operating from an increasingly inaccurate model of reality. Organizational learning is the process through which the organization revises its shared mental models based on experience. Single-loop learning adjusts actions within existing schemas. Double-loop learning revises the schemas themselves. Only double-loop learning produces genuine organizational adaptation.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomBelief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence AxiomNo Direct Access to Reality AxiomWhen a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good

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