Lexicon · term
The stake condition
Also called Skin in the outcome.
Judgment requires something at risk in the outcome. A system that cannot be harmed by being wrong, cannot be shamed by it, and does not persist through the consequence has no ground on which to weigh what is good. The condition is what the top of the data-to-wisdom hierarchy is actually made of, and it is not reachable by accumulating more of the level below it.
Used in
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Discernment
A system can hold every fact and still have no judgment
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The missing rung
Wisdom is not knowledge at higher resolution, so no amount of knowing climbs to it
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Wise workflows
Design the workflow to be wise and no single part of it has to be
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The ledger says unknown
Confidence earned by looking at a failure does not transfer to the fix proposed for it