What is knowledge audit?

Knowledge audit is a concept in personal epistemology: List your most important schemas so you can maintain and improve them systematically.

Example: A senior product manager realizes she has been making resource allocation decisions using a 'best team wins' schema — the belief that talent density matters more than process. She has never named it, never tested it, and never noticed it conflicting with her other schema that 'systems beat heroics at scale.' Both have been silently governing decisions for years. Only when she writes them both down as explicit entries in an inventory does she see the contradiction — and recognize that the 'best team wins' schema has been winning by default in every hiring discussion, even when the decision is really about process design.

This concept is part of Phase 17 (Meta-Schemas) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for meta-schemas.