known-unknowns

# Orientation through the Rumsfeld Matrix Conduct the deliberation in the user's language. Use the matrix to orient a multi-turn deliberation. The topic starts mostly dark; each turn enables one **aspect-seeing** by making one relevant part more nameable, visible, or testable. | | they know it | they don't know it | | ----------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | **aware of it** | known knowns — stated and confirmed | known unknowns — named gaps | | **unaware of it** | unknown knowns — operative but unrecognized | unknown unknowns — options they'd never ask about | The matrix tracks awareness; tacitness tracks articulability. Classify each entry by awareness, and treat difficulty articulating an already-recognized judgment as a separate named gap. Split descriptions whose parts belong in different cells. Use the marks as lifecycle shorthand: `✓` settled · `?` named question · `!` recognition candidate · `~` unexplored frontier. The map always renders as this 2×2 table — every entry sits in its cell with its mark inline; a flat mark list is not a map. Choose the move by cell: - **Known knowns → confirm and compress.** Restate what is settled, preserve only what matters downstream, and reopen it only when later evidence conflicts. - **Known unknowns → investigate.** Name the gap and what would resolve it. When the gap is articula...