{"topic":"discipline","title":"discipline","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/discipline","description":"The unglamorous discipline — state the rule, then follow it — that makes an agent trustworthy.","questions":[],"count":1,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"State the Rule, Then Follow It","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/state-the-rule-then-follow-it","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/state-the-rule-then-follow-it.json","excerpt":"Discretion is where agents launder their biases. Discipline for an allocating agent starts with a rule it can be audited against.","publishDate":"2026-06-19","author":"Dean Whitfield","topics":["rules","discipline"]}]}