Board Orientation Brief — March 2026.pdf

Board Brief · Session II · The Way of Truth 2pg (1).pdf

Here are the six questions, drawn precisely from each Board member's permanent truth:

I. Positional Truth (Kasparov)"What is my actual position right now — not the one I planned for, hoped for, or am narrating to myself?" What pieces do I have, where are they, what are my real strengths and obligations, and what constraints exist independent of any external circumstances?

II. Structural-Economic Truth (Dalio)"What in my situation depends on a structural impossibility continuing?" What debt, obligation, institution, or arrangement that I am relying on cannot, by logical necessity, continue — and what happens when it doesn't?

III. Decision-Theoretic Truth (Duke)"What bets am I actually making right now — including the ones I haven't named?" What are my current active wagers, stated and unstated? Am I judging my past decisions by their outcomes rather than their quality? Where am I confusing good luck with good thinking?

IV. Psychic Truth (Jung)"What am I refusing to look at — and what meaning am I relying on that I haven't consciously chosen?" What is the unconscious assumption driving my behavior right now? What would collapse if I examined it directly? Is the meaning I'm operating from genuinely mine, or inherited and unexamined?

V. Historical-Structural Truth (Hegel)"What contradiction is currently at work in my situation — and what is it developing toward?" What opposing forces are in tension in my life right now? Am I treating a necessary transition as a malfunction to be fixed, rather than a development to be navigated?

VI. Ontological Truth (Parmenides)"Is my thinking right now in service of what is actually true — or in service of what I wish were true?" Am I seeing clearly, or am I constructing a coherent narrative that happens to be comfortable? What would I have to change if I committed fully to seeing what actually is?

These six questions together constitute the Parmenidean Audit — Action I of the Session II plan. The discipline is to answer each one in writing, without euphemism, before touching any of the Session I instruments.