Rule Register: Options And Knowledge

R13 / Build Outside Options With Proportionate Cost

Type: Conditional recommendation. When: When dependence on a role, customer or platform is restrictive.

Action: Assess transferable skills, credible alternatives, switching costs and the household cash position before changing commitments.

Exception or boundary: Health, caregiving, labor-market conditions and benefits may make staying preferable. A person does not need a business to have agency.

Check: Verified alternatives, transition runway, benefits and time demands. Basis: Charter; M02-M04.

R14 / Distinguish Facts, Estimates And Unknowns

Type: Definition. When: Whenever a decision uses a forecast, claim or interpretation.

Action: Label source, date, confidence basis and missing inputs. Use ranges or separate scenarios when a point value conceals uncertainty.

Exception or boundary: An invented probability is not better than an honest unknown. Some values are personal priorities rather than quantities awaiting measurement.

Check: Input provenance, stated assumptions, sensitivity and unresolved questions. Basis: Evidence policy.

R15 / Investigate Enough To Act Responsibly

Type: Design rule. When: Before a material commitment.

Action: Verify the few facts most capable of changing the decision. Establish a review deadline and the consequences of further delay.

Exception or boundary: Endless research can itself be costly. Immediate needs can justify a bounded decision with uncertainty stated.

Check: Decision-changing questions answered; remaining uncertainty and cost of delay. Basis: Decision protocol; unvalidated design choice.