Signals
- 004
When the cost of bribing a trusted insider falls below the cost of developing a technical exploit, attackers rationally migrate toward human incentives. Security spending remains concentrated on technology. Attack surface migrates toward economics.
- 003
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Missing observations may generate hypotheses, but may not collapse confidence.
- 002
Control is not achieved by limiting choice. It is achieved by assigning significance to the chooser. When the act of selection confers status, compliance no longer requires force. The system no longer needs to direct behavior. It only needs to define who is seen as choosing.
- 001
Systems do not preserve themselves by remaining intact. They preserve themselves by discarding what they cannot sustain. What is lost is often mistaken for weakness. It is the cost of survival. The advantage is not speed. It is the range of what a system is willing to sacrifice. And most systems collapse not because they cannot adapt, but because there are things they refuse to lose.