Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Rule
When two people map the same situation differently…
When two schemas of the same situation diverge between people, treat the divergence itself as information about complexity the territory contains that neither schema fully captured.
1 lessonmental-modelscollaborationcritical-thinking
Rule
In complex or chaotic domains, review schemas more…
In complex or chaotic Cynefin domains, increase schema review frequency beyond what the pace layer suggests because unpredictability generates more frequent anomalies requiring evaluation.
1 lessonschema-validationcomplexityreview
Rule
Protect the conditions that produce beneficial emergence…
For beneficial emergent behaviors, protect the conditions that produced them—keeping agents active, maintaining shared context, and adding lightweight observation—rather than formalizing the pattern into an explicit rule.
1 lessonemergencesystems-thinkingcomplexity