Editorial Question
What should a system preserve when the people doing the work no longer remember why a decision was made?
Why it matters
A decision without its rationale can become either an unquestioned rule or a mistake repeated with confidence.
Organizations often preserve the result of a decision more reliably than the conditions that made it reasonable.
What deserves to remain: the alternatives, the uncertainty, the values being protected, the dissent, or only the final choice?
Conversation state
Open — This inquiry remains open.