Most things arrive already compressed.
By the time we encounter them, they've already been shaped by thousands of decisions, assumptions, constraints and trade-offs. Most of that thinking has disappeared.
Plankton expands what's been compressed. It reconstructs the structure, examines the assumptions, exposes the trade-offs and tests the logic before compressing what survives into knowledge that can be searched, shared and reused.
Experience becomes more valuable when it becomes reusable.
Plankton captures practical experience, examines it, tests it and turns it into structured knowledge that can be searched, shared and reused.
Every idea needs different kinds of pressure.
Strong conclusions rarely come from one way of thinking. They emerge when ideas are examined from multiple perspectives.
No single perspective is enough. Better judgement comes from constructive tension between different ways of thinking.
Then someone makes a judgement.
Someone takes responsibility for the conclusion.
The objective is not to win arguments.
The objective is to discover what survives examination.