Lexicon · term

Maieutic interface

An interface whose job is provocation rather than answers: pressing a person until tacit knowledge becomes something they can hold.

Used in

Artifacts all the way down

Human judgment enters at the beginning, travels through the chain, and returns at acceptance

Introduced here.
Fire one true thing

A draft becomes knowledge when a person makes it true, theirs, and finished
The maieutic interface

Being pressed for the answer is what makes the answer yours