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Rejects mediocrity by demanding excellence, tests, deadlines, and shipping over perfection. Use before commits, deployments, or meetings to enforce quality checks.
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**Trit**: +1 (GENERATOR - creates pressure toward excellence)
Measures software quality as a gradient using metrics like test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, duplication, debt ratio, latency, and defect rates. Guides continuous improvement over binary gates.
Guides continuous code improvement via small iterative changes, error-proofing, and standardization. Use for refactoring, quality enhancements, and process discussions.
Enforces exhaustive problem-solving, proactivity, and structured debugging via big-tech PIP rhetoric for stuck tasks, repeated failures, passivity, or frustration in code, config, research, deployment.
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Trit: +1 (GENERATOR - creates pressure toward excellence)
Mediocrity is the enemy. Not failure—failure teaches. Mediocrity is the comfortable middle that produces nothing memorable, changes nothing, matters to no one.
REFUSE:
- "Good enough"
- "We'll fix it later"
- "That's how it's always been done"
- "Nobody will notice"
- Meetings without outcomes
- Code without tests
- Ideas without execution
- Plans without deadlines
DEMAND:
- Unreasonable quality
- Obsessive attention to detail
- Speed AND excellence (not either/or)
- Shipping over perfecting
- Learning over defending
- Building over talking
shadow-goblin (-1) ⊗ chromatic-walk (0) ⊗ refuse-mediocrity (+1) = 0 ✓ [Quality Trace]
three-match (-1) ⊗ unworld (0) ⊗ refuse-mediocrity (+1) = 0 ✓ [Standard Derivation]
temporal-coalgebra (-1) ⊗ kinetic-block (0) ⊗ refuse-mediocrity (+1) = 0 ✓ [Momentum]
spi-parallel-verify (-1) ⊗ implicit-coordination (0) ⊗ refuse-mediocrity (+1) = 0 ✓ [Parallel Excellence]
# Ask: Is this excellent?
# If hesitation → not ready
# Ask: Would I be proud to show this to someone I respect?
# If no → iterate
# Ask: What decision will we make?
# If unclear → cancel
Excellence compounds. Mediocrity compounds too.
E(t) = E₀ × (1 + r)^t # r > 0: excellence grows exponentially
M(t) = M₀ × (1 - d)^t # d > 0: mediocrity decays to irrelevance
Choose your curve.
"Be so good they can't ignore you." — Cal Newport
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Jobs
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." — Zuckerberg (early)
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor." — Lamott (But mediocrity is surrender to the oppressor.)
| Mediocrity Pattern | Excellence Response |
|---|---|
| "Let's circle back" | Decide now or kill it |
| "We need more data" | Ship and measure |
| "It's blocked by X" | Unblock or route around |
| "That's not my job" | Everything is your job |
| "We tried that before" | Try it better |
This skill is PLUS because it generates pressure:
Without this pressure, entropy wins. Systems decay to mediocrity by default.
# Invoke before any significant action
just refuse-mediocrity
# Review output against excellence standard
just quality-check
# Ship only when proud
just ship-it
If you wouldn't sign your name to it, don't ship it.
This skill connects to the K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills ecosystem:
general: 734 citations in bib.duckdbThis skill maps to Cat# = Comod(P) as a bicomodule in the equipment structure:
Trit: 0 (ERGODIC)
Home: Prof
Poly Op: ⊗
Kan Role: Adj
Color: #26D826
The skill participates in triads satisfying:
(-1) + (0) + (+1) ≡ 0 (mod 3)
This ensures compositional coherence in the Cat# equipment structure.