Mind · Strategy
Leapdebt
Record what a skipped stage would have provided, and repay it or carry it explicitly into work that depends on it
Definition
Mechanism
When a stage of work or learning is skipped, what that stage would have provided is recorded as a debt: the check not run, the foundation not built, the case not tested. Each debt is held as an Assumption with a trigger for repaying it, and work that depends on it waits for the repayment or carries the debt explicitly.
Invariants
- Each skipped stage records what it would have provided.
- Each debt is held as an assumption with a repayment trigger.
- Work that depends on an unpaid debt waits for it or carries it explicitly.
Risks
Failure modes
Invisible debt
a skipped stage leaves no record, and later failures are never traced to it.
Debt paralysis
so many debts are recorded that none is repaid.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Provisional truth
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference