Field note
What Is Praxis?
Praxis is the reliable capability that keeps or protects a relied-upon promise under real conditions.
By Find the Praxis
Start with the ordinary failure. The product says done. Someone relies on that signal. Reality does not match it.
Praxis is not the interface, the workflow, or the status label. Praxis is the reliable capability that keeps or protects the promise when the product is used under real conditions.
The product signal succeeded. The promise failed. Find the Praxis.
The diagnostic move
- Find the signal people trusted.
- Name the promise that signal implied.
- Find the carrier through which the promise was encountered.
- Ask what proof would matter.
- Name what keeps, protects, refuses, escalates, repairs, or re-promises the promise.