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Now the questions appear: requests traced up, goals traced down, and the measures where they meet

Kerala, 1997: each skipper must choose a market while still at sea, without knowing what it will pay, and a catch goes back into the sea while buyers nearby go without, until phones bring the answer in time. Then Tomás's backlog of 42 requests, read again with the skipper's test: who will decide what with the answer, and when? Half reach a goal and half reach nothing. Traced down from the goals, each decision needs a question, and each question a measure, defined once, with a home on the map and an owner.

6 minPause and thinkEnglish captions

Builds on Today, and where it's going

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Today, and where it's going

An imagined street in 2045. Today's 140 systems on the map. A target, and the path to it, with reasons.

5 min · Pause and think · The map before the data

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Rules with a home

Tartu's once only. A bill never corrected, and a script on the wall. Each rule written once, with an owner and a reason: tests for the data, a tracking table for the business.

8 min · Pause and think · The map before the data

  1. 1Day one
  2. 2Who it serves, and how it pays
  3. 3Why it moves
  4. 4What it must be able to do
  5. 5How value reaches people
  6. 6Who does it, and where meaning changes
  7. 7Today, and where it's going
  8. 8Now the questions appear
  9. 9Rules with a home
  10. 10When strategy moves
  11. 11A map people and agents can read