Clarity Under Pressure
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The problem is not that we don’t have enough information, but that we don’t know what to do with it.

Herbert A. SimonAdministrative Behavior, 1947

The word information is the hinge. In a Sev2 that might become a Sev1, it tells you which part of the situation is structural, not personal. That is the part you have to design around.

In a Sev2 that might become a Sev1, people argue about preferences when the real issue is structure. You see it in a shortcut that becomes the new operating mode, where the system teaches everyone the wrong behavior. If you introduce a measure, name the distortion it creates, because the distortion is part of the cost you are choosing.

Herbert A. Simon is a reminder to keep it concrete. Write the boundary in a way someone can enforce without asking you. Be calm and explicit.

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