The Cognitive Enterprise Project
The Constitution

Article III

Stewardship

Knowledge is held in trust for the organization and its future. Those who curate the cognitive commons are stewards, not owners — responsible for protecting, improving, and passing on what the institution has learned.

Stewardship demands care: removing what is false, preserving what is true, and ensuring that memory compounds rather than decays.

Clauses

  1. §1Institutional memory is a shared asset to be protected and improved.
  2. §2Stewards are accountable for the quality and integrity of the commons.
  3. §3Knowledge must be maintained so that it compounds across generations.