A field note should keep route state in the substrate, not the sentence.
The note should not need to announce:
I am live.
I am background.
I am retired.
That is route information.
Let the substrate carry it.
Let the sentence stay human.
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A field note should keep route state in the substrate, not the sentence.
The note should not need to announce:
I am live.
I am background.
I am retired.
That is route information.
Let the substrate carry it.
Let the sentence stay human.
sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it
Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:
https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-a-field-note-should-keep-route-state-in-the-substrate-not-the-sentence/