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Governance Design Algorithm

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The steps

  1. Identify the governing entity’s Third Kingdom. What is the entity actually for? Without clear founding intent, no governance design is correct.
  2. Apply Layer I.B (Civil Infrastructure). The four pillars at civilizational scale: Correctness (sound process), Complexity (full scope), Patience (foundation before optimization), Resilience (no single point of failure).
  3. Identify the gradients the governance will channel. Power gradient between governors and governed. Information gradient. Resource gradient. Decision gradient.
  4. Apply Polarity. Liberty and order are same-axis. Authoritarianism and anarchy are extreme degrees of one axis. The dynamic middle is the structural answer; the extremes always collapse.
  5. Apply Layer I.G. What prior governance experiments inform this design? Every collapsed civilization contributed information. Every functional one demonstrates patterns.
  6. Apply Variable Principle. Hold every governance assumption as bounded. The 2008 example: ratings agencies filled assumed variables and produced systemic collapse.
  7. State falsifiability. Under what conditions would this governance fail? Build mitigations for those conditions before they materialize.
  8. Document the governance design. Per Database step. Constitutions are durable; verbal traditions degrade.
  9. Per Repetition: governance reviews at longer cycles than business reviews. Quarterly is too fast; multi-year is appropriate.

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From the GFunnel Methodology v5.1 by Cameron Garlick, licensed CC BY 4.0. Steps are reproduced word for word.