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Every system you build for clear thinking, aligned action, and self-correction rests on a single prerequisite: your ability to notice what is happening — in your mind, in your environment, in the gap between them — and externalize it before it disappears.
The goal is not perfect decomposition but steadily improving your ability to decompose.
When you trust your capture system your mind stops trying to hold everything.
The ability to direct and sustain attention underlies every other cognitive capability.
The ability to see clearly — not optimistically, not pessimistically, but accurately — is rarer and more valuable than most technical skills. Calibrated perception compounds into better decisions, and better decisions compound into better outcomes at every timescale.
Practical wisdom — phronesis — is not the accumulation of knowledge or the mastery of rules. It is the ability to perceive what a situation demands and respond appropriately. Context sensitivity is not a component of wisdom. It is the mechanism through which wisdom operates.
The act of mapping relationships generates new insights about the system. You do not map what you already understand — you map in order to understand. The diagram is not a record of finished thinking. It is the medium in which thinking happens.
Improving your meta-schemas improves everything built on top of them.
Your externalized knowledge graph is a functional extension of your biological cognition.
Thesis and antithesis can sometimes be resolved through synthesis that preserves truth from both.
Designing agents for your own cognition is applying systems design to the most important system you manage.
A complete set of well-tuned triggers means you respond appropriately to everything that matters.
The ability to build and tune feedback loops is the ability to continuously improve.
Monitoring completes the feedback loop — observation enables adjustment enables improvement.
The way you create, maintain, and retire agents mirrors how you learn, practice, and let go of knowledge. Recognizing this parallel turns agent management into a form of self-directed development.