Follow the question before defending the answer.
Define the problem. Find what is already known. Examine how it is handled in practice. Make assumptions visible. Build only where useful. Look deliberately for collision. Revise accordingly.
1. Start with the problem
Make the question more precise without assuming its cause or solution.
2. Search before inventing
Look across literature, disciplines, existing instruments and practitioner methods. Discovery precedes invention.
3. Follow across disciplines
Borrowed ideas should remain traceable to their intellectual sources rather than being renamed as CCI inventions.
4. Learn from work as done
Ask clinicians, founders and operators what data, proxies, thresholds, constraints and judgments actually produced the decision.
5. Make assumptions visible
Use frameworks and instruments to expose reasoning—not merely to give the reasoning a name.
6. Build only when useful
If an existing method already solves the problem adequately, using or adapting it may be preferable.
7. Collision-test
Seek methods, evidence, cases and experienced criticism that could alter the current explanation rather than merely confirm it.
8. Revise, replace or reject
Revision is part of the method. Intensity of investigation is not the same as strength of evidence.
AI/SI
AI/SI — Artificial Intelligence / Super Intelligence — systems participate extensively in CCI's working process.
They increase the amount of material that can be searched, compared, organized, challenged, reformulated and examined within limited human attention. That increased throughput does not convert exploratory work into established evidence.
The human publisher remains responsible for the questions, sources, claims, distinctions between working ideas and evidence, editorial judgments, corrections and publication.