Lessons tagged “provenance”
2 published lessons with this tag.
The self-validating artifact
A knowledge atom becomes trustworthy at scale when it carries its own verification machinery: claim, provenance, falsifier, confidence, expiry, links. Six fields turn a note from prose you must re-read into an artifact a gate — human or machine — can check, decay on schedule, and challenge. It is Shannon's error-correcting code applied to knowledge: structured redundancy that lets the record detect its own corruption.
Track what triggered the update
Record what new evidence or experience caused you to revise your schema. Every schema update has a trigger — a specific observation, conversation, failure, or piece of evidence that shifted your model. If you do not capture that trigger at the moment of change, you lose the provenance of your own thinking. Lost provenance means you cannot reconstruct why you believe what you now believe, cannot evaluate whether the change was warranted, and cannot detect patterns in what kinds of evidence actually move you.