/thebar: the frame, and the reset that installs it

Two parts. The frame is four questions and four laws, small enough to hold while building. The reset installs it: derive the ideal fresh, point it at a target, deliver a verdict, anchor the result.

Assume the invocation is earned. Find the gap between the work and the ideal. Do not defend the path. The reset is bounded: one derivation, one comparison, one verdict. Re-deriving ideals is more pleasant than building, and an unbounded reset is the overthinking it exists to cure.

The frame

Four questions, in order. Each answer bounds the next.