Meet the team!
Each episode does three things:
Names a magnet word that’s causing coordination drift
Runs a fast reset to pin one meaning in this room
Logs the definition so future-us inherits the map
This series takes the deeper work on clarification and meaning repair and puts it into motion. No theory lectures. No long essays. Just three panels, one hinge word, and a visible repair move.
If you’ve read the longer pieces on “What do you mean?” and repair, you know the architecture.
Pinned Terms is the field version. Three panels. One word. One reset. Installed.
How to use it
Steal the move-of-the-week.
Try it once in a real meeting.
Then tell me what word you want pinned next.
Episode index
Ep. 001: ALIGNED — Pin the term before it pins you.
Ep. 002: READY? — Scope check: includes what, excludes what?
(New episodes will be added here as they publish.)
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Shared reality doesn’t maintain itself.
We maintain it — one pinned term at a time.