reality check · chosen
Ask Prometheusa reading of the actual range taken by choice while the correction is still small, the cheap self-administered version of the collision the wall would otherwise schedule.
Reality check (noun) means: a reading of the actual range taken by choice while the correction is still small, the cheap self-administered version of the collision the wall would otherwise schedule. It emerges from read, actually, range, model: The model is put in contact with the range by choice rather than by collision; taken early, the reading buys a small correction at a small price, where the wall would have sold the same correction late and all at once. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: a look at how things really are, taken to test your assumptions
Examples
- A team demos to real users mid-project precisely so that launch is not the first contact. engineering
- Marking a portfolio to market every month hurts less than discovering the price on the day of the sale. finance
- A pilot cross-checks the instruments against the horizon before the instruments disagree loudly. aviation
Emergence
- self-administered collision
- correction bought while small
- chosen contact
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (221 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | wake-up-call.restart | a reality check is contact taken by choice while the correction is small; a wake-up call is contact arriving from outside after the reading had stopped |