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    <title>active-gate-vs-passive-audit</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/active-gate-vs-passive-audit</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/active-gate-vs-passive-audit</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Posture-toward-error: synchronous gate (block invalid input at the boundary) vs asynchronous audit (record, surface on schedule, respond after). ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>asymmetric-gate</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/asymmetric-gate</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/asymmetric-gate</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ A control point where one direction is cheap and the other expensive — activation energy, ratchets, irreversible commits, CI gates. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>backpressure</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/backpressure</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/backpressure</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Flow + feedback: when downstream slows, the signal propagates upstream as throttle. Self-regulates the system to the bottleneck rate. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>cadence</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cadence</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cadence</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The temporal rhythm of a process — the periodic or event-driven beat that governs *when* things happen, distinct from feedback-loop. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>half-renamed-codebase</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/half-renamed-codebase</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/half-renamed-codebase</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Terminology lag as project-maturation signal; the lagging name surfaces an unabsorbed mental model that the project has structurally outgrown. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>quietly-load-bearing</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/quietly-load-bearing</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/quietly-load-bearing</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Failure-mode-load-bearing distinct from decision-time-load-bearing; the load-bearing diagnostic doesn't run cleanly when failure surfaces only at delayed retrospective. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>spike</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/spike</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/candidates/spike</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ A time-boxed investigative task whose purpose is to reduce uncertainty before committing to a build; output is *understanding*, not shipped product. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>cargo-cult</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cargo-cult</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cargo-cult</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Copying the surface shape of a successful thing without the underlying causal force — shape without the load-bearing mechanism. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>cost-cascade</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cost-cascade</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/cost-cascade</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Cheap-default path handles the common case; expensive-fallback handles the remainder when the cheap path falls short. Cost differential is the value. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>doctrine</title>
    <link>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/doctrine</link>
    <guid>https://forms.jamesfoster.io/forms/doctrine</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ An operational rule promoted to a named, addressable artifact: name + triggering condition + protected-against failure + citation address. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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