A decision was made. Nobody can tell you why.

Someone joins the team. They're taking on a product, a system. They need to understand why it works the way it does.

So they search Slack, dig through docs, PRDs, release notes, tickets — ask whoever was in the room. Piece together whatever they can find.

They get fragments. Enough to move forward. Not enough to be confident.

They make their best guess about what was decided and why, and hope they're not missing something important.

This is how context actually gets reconstructed today. Every time it happens, there's a cost. Work gets repeated. The same thinking gets redone. New people take longer to become useful.

The reasoning behind decisions exists somewhere. It's just not in a form anyone can use when they need it.

I'm working on how to change that.