The Propagation is written by Jayson Winchester.

It’s a place to explore how ideas, decisions, and reasoning move through people, organizations, and systems. What gets preserved, what disappears, and why our tools rarely capture the logic behind the work.

I write about reasoning, structure, knowledge, AI, and the primitives we build on.
Mostly, I’m trying to understand why complex work breaks — and what it would take to build systems that actually understand us.

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