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Designing a cognitive framework for decision clarity (constraints over ideology)

I’ve been working on a cognitive framework focused on one simple goal:
improving decision clarity by constraining how decisions are formed, not by adding more narratives.

The framework emphasizes:

  • explicit constraints
  • identifiable failure modes
  • auditability over persuasion
  • reducing narrative drift in complex systems

This is not about optimization, productivity hacks, or ideology.
It’s about cognitive hygiene: making it easier to see where reasoning breaks.

I’m sharing this primarily for critical feedback:

  • where do such frameworks usually fail?
  • which constraints tend to be underestimated?
  • how do you keep a framework useful over time instead of performative?

Reference (open, non-commercial):
https://zenodo.org/records/18209659

Thoughtful critique welcome.

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