Causal Opacity: It is impossible to know, for things above a very low bar of complexity, how they got that way or make accurate predictions about them. [1]
Defragilizing: Improving something by removing an element that makes (or may make) it fragile.
Legibility: The forced packaging of information so that an organization can understand it. [2]
MECE: Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive. When there’s a list of things that covers a topic, the list is MECE if it both covers everything in the topic, and none of the list items overlap.
Via Negativa: Taking things away. Latin for “negative way”.[3]
Via Positiva: Adding things. Latin for “positive way”. [4]
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