Principles

A principle has to be earned.

Not proposed, not believed, not borrowed from someone who said it well. Earned by an observation that argued it in public and survived. Three have. The rest are still under examination, and they are listed as such.

Earned

Each one carries the reference of the observation that earned it.

001 Every system produces behaviour. Earned by Behaviour Reads The System. The sentence that survived it: behaviour reads the system with perfect accuracy. 002 Trust compounds. Earned by Trust Is Infrastructure. The sentence that survived it: the slowest process is often a detour around trust nobody repaired. 003 Truth follows response. Earned by Truth Is Telemetry. The sentence that survived it: people never stop telling the truth. They change the audience. 004 Friction is a design tool. Earned by The Difficulty Is The Design. The sentence that survived it: the difficulty is the design. 005 Capability is a practice. Earned by Capability Debt. The sentence that survived it: readiness has a date.

Under examination

No reference, no link, and no page. Nothing has argued them yet. Some will earn their argument. Some will not survive one.

People follow the path of least resistance.

Design the system, not the hero.

Capability scales.

Identity drives behaviour.

Preparation raises the floor.

Freedom requires responsibility.

Recovery is part of performance.

Why the split is visible

Eight of these could be written up in a week and the page would look finished. It would also be a list of things nobody had argued for, which is what most principle pages are.

So the examining list stays plain. No reference, no link, nothing to click. It is a record of what is being worked on, not a claim that the work is done.

Which principle does your organisation state, and which one does it actually run on?