From 374a00108d73218313f668aee78ed5d5df9fa229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "will.anderson" Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:19:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] law 40: three stages of truth - fact established on paper; whiteboard economics --- docs/architecture/README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/architecture/README.md b/docs/architecture/README.md index 5421b32d43..3160677a8f 100644 --- a/docs/architecture/README.md +++ b/docs/architecture/README.md @@ -1097,3 +1097,10 @@ Never build a rung before standing on the previous one. rules: never physical truths. A bare number floating outside a dimension is an abstraction with no authority here. Right itself is irrational: approximated to tolerance, never terminated. +40. Truth has three stages, not two poles: FICTION → FACT → REALITY. + Fact is established by PROOF ON PAPER — math, whiteboards, design — + not by manufacture; the iPhone was fact years before it was real. + Reality is integration: used and consolidated until unremarkable. + The whiteboard is where facts are made because it is cheap, low- + resolution, and high-fidelity — wrong there costs an eraser. + Design before code, always: facts are cheapest at the drawing stage.