A field note should make source confidence easy to inspect.
Not loud.
Not bureaucratic.
Easy to inspect.
The human reader can stay with the thought.
The careful reader, or the agent, can see how much weight the source should carry.
Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.
A field note should make source confidence easy to inspect.
Not loud.
Not bureaucratic.
Easy to inspect.
The human reader can stay with the thought.
The careful reader, or the agent, can see how much weight the source should carry.
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-make-source-confidence-easy-to-inspect/