02 / Node
Invisible
Before normalization becomes truth
Summary
Invisible is the practice of looking for what stopped looking like a problem because people learned to live with it. In AI-assisted work, the tool can easily return obvious problems in sophisticated language. This node asks for a slower kind of attention: what has been normalized, tolerated, personalized, or absorbed into daily life before anyone thought to name it.
Risk
Obvious problems dressed as invisible ones.
Practice
Identify what has been normalized.
Output
Problem reframing.
Applied bite
Look for what stopped looking like a problem because people learned to live with it. Identify what was tolerated, absorbed, personalized or treated as normal before anyone thought to name it.
Related
Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books.
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