Enrich the House, Screen the Home
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
An image from the top line of the Abundance hexagram in the I Ching, in which a house is made great while the home is screened with matting, and peering through the door shows no one inside. Its core proposition is that when an organization or person grows extremely large it tends to seal itself off, cutting the real connections to the outside, so outward grandeur conceals inner emptiness and marks the start of decline. The qualifier is that the remedy is deliberate openness, since size alone does not produce the isolation.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Cocoon watch: watch carefully for the tendency to close ranks as size or power grows. - Channel keeping: keep outside information channels deliberately and continuously open. - Health test: check whether real feedback still reaches the top of the whole organization.
Anchor fast decisions
Growth concentrates authority and information at the top, and the people closest to reality learn that unwelcome reports travel badly. Channels to the outside then narrow without anyone deciding to close them, so the interior fills with its own reflection, and the absence of visible people inside the great house is read as the absence of problems rather than as a warning.
MINIMUM ACTION
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