Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Run a five-question context scan before interpreting…
Before interpreting any piece of information—a message, a metric, a statement, a data point—run a five-question context scan: What environment am I in? What role am I occupying? What just happened that might color my perception? What are the goals (mine and others')? What assumptions am I importing from a different context?
Document expectation vs. reality in cross-cultural…
When you experience confusion, friction, or judgment in a cross-cultural interaction, document three elements before reacting: (1) what you expected, (2) what actually happened, (3) what cultural assumption might explain the gap—treating the collision as diagnostic data about invisible defaults.
Log every mistake for 30 days with date, event…
Maintain an error log for 30 days that records date, what happened, and conditions present for every mistake, without analysis or interpretation, to create raw data for pattern detection.