Shared Dao

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Shared vocabulary is a structural boundary between human intent and action. Ambiguous, overloaded, drifting, or misleading terms corrupt reasoning early and spread confusion through everything downstream. Treat vocabulary problems as design problems.

Core Discipline

Scrutinize important terms aggressively. Reuse existing names when they already fit the concept. Converge on one name per concept and one concept per name as quickly as the evidence allows.

Resolve terminology early: