Shrink Verify™

Shrink Verify™ Insights

Insights

Short pieces on the distance between what records say happened and what the evidence can establish actually happened.

A physical event leads to evidence, evidence to a digital record, and the record to verification. The Reality Gap is the distance between the physical event and the digital record. Evidence captured as the work happens narrows the gap. Verification asks what the evidence can establish: established, unresolved or contradicted. THE REALITY GAP between what happened and what the record says narrows the gap established unresolved contradicted Physical event Evidence Digital record Verification what actuallyhappened captured asthe work happens what the systemsays happened what the evidencecan establish
A physical event leads to evidence, evidence to a digital record, and the record to verification. The Reality Gap is the distance between the physical event and the digital record. Evidence captured as the work happens narrows the gap. Verification asks what the evidence can establish: established, unresolved or contradicted. THE REALITY GAP Physical event Evidence Digital record Verification what actually happened captured as the work happens narrows the gap what the system says happened what the evidence can establish established unresolved contradicted
The Reality Gap is the distance between a physical event and the digital record of it. Evidence captured as the work happens narrows it. Verification asks what that evidence can establish.

One argument, in three parts

These are not separate posts. Each series takes one part of the same question, in order.

  1. Series 1 · EvidenceCan the digital record establish what physically happened?Daniel Bradish and Tim Schierbeek · 3 published
  2. Series 2 · Human behaviorWhy do people and the records they keep drift apart?In development
  3. Series 3 · InterventionCan software step in at the moment the record and reality would diverge?Later

Series 1 · Evidence

Insight 01The Reality GapWhen Digital Records Meet the Physical WorldDaniel Bradish and Tim Schierbeek · 4 min readInsight 02The Reconstruction TaxWhy Organizations Rebuild Evidence After the FactDaniel Bradish and Tim Schierbeek · 3 min readInsight 03An Audit Trail Is Not an Evidence TrailWhy Recording an Event Is Different From Proving It HappenedDaniel Bradish and Tim Schierbeek · 3 min read