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Designate exactly one authoritative write location for each
Designate exactly one authoritative write location for each information type to prevent sync drift and the cognitive overhead of reconciling contradictory copies.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle follows from axioms about working memory limits (Working Memory Capacity Limit), memory decay (Exponential Information Decay), uncaptured commitments consuming resources (Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik)), memory unreliability (Human memory under stress and cognitive load is unreliable), and hindsight bias preventing learning (Hindsight Bias and Calibration Necessity). The principle prescribes single source of truth architecture as the solution to cognitive problems created by information duplication. It's a clear architectural prescription derived from cognitive constraints.