Every piece of knowledge should have one authoritative representation — duplication is where truth goes to diverge.
Widely misread as “do not type the same thing twice”. The disease is two places that must be kept in agreement by human attention, which is a bet that eventually loses.
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supports →Write recurring decisions down as principles — a decision made once and codified stops costing willpower and starts compounding.The software original of what Dalio does with life decisions: one canonical home for a decision, so it can be improved in a single place rather than drifting across copies maintained by diligence.