The Tool That Comes From You Fits You

Pattern · knowledge_systems · hypothesis · visibility: publishable

Infrastructure derived from actual use fits actual use; infrastructure imposed in advance rejects whatever doesn’t conform. The schema works (no orphan nodes) because it came from her thoughts; Airtable failed because its categories were imposed; Diarly works because it has no structure to reject anything.

source: Defining a knowledge management system (2026-02-18) · extraction: auto (schema v3.0)