How design choices encode governance and where real power lives in digital systems. > [!milestone] ## Core Concepts > --- > - ### [[Default Decisions - Architecture Shapes Behaviour]] > - Design as governance > - ### [[capital cognitive capture|Capital Cognitive Capture]] > - Extraction through interfaces > - ### [[Digital Sovereignty]] > - Maintaining agency against capture > [!connect] ### Related Claims, questions, & frameworks > --- > - ### Claims > - [[Systems are not neutral; every technical choice shapes what can be expressed.]] > - [[In AI mediated work, employability becomes "legibility to the system plus proprietary context access"]] > - [[Capital cognitive capture is more novel threat than traditional automation.]] > - [[Social opinion operates as enforcement mechanism of digital conformity.]] > - [[Default decisions shape platform behaviour; most users never change defaults.]] > - ### Questions > - [[What would professional data governance look like if designed for user sovereignty?]] > - [[How can individuals or small orgs protect IP from cognitive capture?]] > - [[How does architecture encode values and what alternative architectures exist?]] > - ### Frameworks / Models > - [[Architecture-Behaviour-Outcomes Model]]