Principlev1
Read omissions and negative space—questions not asked,
Read omissions and negative space—questions not asked, disagreements not voiced—to detect low psychological safety.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from attention as capacity-limited (Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception), goals as perceptual filters (Goals as Perceptual Filters), and group pressure to conform (Groups exert constant pressure to align your thinking with). Prescribes attending to what is absent rather than only what is present. This is perceptual strategy derived from understanding how threat suppresses expression.