{"id": "card_n_f2c9365bdedf", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Forking", "body": "A man entered a garden of many paths. He wandered until he found a flower, and said: 'This is the path I chose from the start.' But he had only chosen the path that ended in a flower. The other paths were not roads not taken — they were the same road, walked differently, and they outnumbered his.\n\nAsk yourself: Was the path chosen before you walked it, or after?\n\nRED — be honest about the choices the data did not see you make.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "almanac_multiple_comparisons_garden_forking", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "information_encoding", "authority_trust", "RED"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "270832e678f6fd73b3d1b8266662dcb027dfa4cca3ff92a5f53b379997acbe13"}