ESSAY · FN-002

Self-improvement must be able to subtract

SELF-IMPROVEMENT MUST SUBTRACT

A field note from the same source as the watch essay: self-improvement that cannot subtract is accretion.

The watch essay walks all five anti-accretion laws. This note keeps one of them and walks around it.

Self-improvement must be able to SUBTRACT.

None of them changes a prompt, a threshold, or removes a gate.

That is the whole operational claim, sourced from the accepted ADR. Nothing here is a new quote, endorsement, or event.