The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types and 2 molecules
For each decision framework you build, explicitly include five components: evaluation criteria, sequence of evaluation, time budget, kill conditions (automatic disqualifiers), and decision rights (who decides, who is consulted).
Position pre-flight checks at the boundary between preparation and execution—after work is ready but before it begins—to catch errors when correction cost is minimal and propagation has not started.
Insert independent verification checkpoints at every coupling point where one process automatically consumes another's output without review to interrupt error cascade chains before they amplify.
For every important recurring process, design three explicit operating modes—full, reduced, and minimal—where each preserves progressively less fidelity but never loses continuity.
Define transition triggers for each operating mode that specify when to shift from full to reduced, reduced to minimal, and—critically—from degraded back to full operation.
For every important process, document five components of recovery: failure mode specification, detection trigger, ordered recovery steps, recovery time target, and verification check.
Place error detection checkpoints at the earliest point in a process where the error can first be caught, because correction cost increases exponentially with propagation distance downstream.
Define error budget thresholds in three tiers—green (within budget, no action), yellow (approaching limits, investigate), red (exceeded, halt and redesign)—with pre-committed responses for each zone.
When modifying organizational processes, surface embedded schemas first to distinguish processes encoding hard-won lessons (whose removal reintroduces risk) from processes encoding obsolete assumptions (whose removal reduces waste).