That's how I describe Socratus now. We're a cluster of capabilities that lets people understand, decide, build and correct course together after the meeting ends, which makes the phrase a brief for institutional design as much as a description.
How the word moved
I wrote it in October 2026. Socrates was a midwife, and my point was that the midwife needs somewhere to work. So we build the delivery room.
In my words
"We are infrastructure for agency."
from Infrastructure for Agency, 28 Oct 2026
"A series of obvious steps that leads to surprising outcomes is a very Socratic method."
from Infrastructure for Agency, 28 Oct 2026
Related
- Depends on Grounded Agency - that's what the infrastructure is for.
- Inherited from Socrates - his midwifery, extended to building the delivery room.
- Related Common Source - sharing knowledge and expertise is part of the job.
- Related Wystem - moving capabilities across boundaries.
- Related Public Intelligence - where the tests of agency come from.
- Related Collective Wisdom - wisdom needs arrangements before it can act.