Hidden Knowledge

Roles: hidden-content, surface-appearance, revelation, denial, cost-of-concealment

What is known but not acknowledged, present but not visible, active but not accounted for. The structural tension between official knowledge and operational reality — the gap between the org chart and how work actually gets done, between the documented architecture and the runtime system, between stated values and revealed preferences. Productive as a target domain because every system of sufficient complexity develops a hidden layer that its official model does not represent.

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