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    Narrative Structure Entry #0531

    The reason a founder story is told backwards

    The story starts from the decision that turned out to matter. In the year it was taken it sat among forty of equal weight, now unrecorded.

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    The hidden part #0531

    A story assembled from its ending will always show a clear cause. The clarity belongs to the ending, not to the decision.

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    Cognitive Bias Entry #0114

    The reason your past self always looks more foolish

    You know how the decision turned out, and the knowledge cannot be set aside. Your earlier uncertainty is rewritten as naïveté.

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    The hidden part #0114

    You are not smarter than your past self. You have information your past self lacked, and you cannot put it down.

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