Epistemic humility means holding your conclusions loosely because your vantage point, your tools, and your available evidence are all narrower than your confidence suggests. It looks like trusting a user's bug report over your own single-pattern grep before declaring the system healthy, demanding evidence and historical baselines before accepting any sweeping claim about how things are, and recognizing that disagreement often reflects differences in observational position rather than differences in competence. It also means accepting that leaders and arbitrators frequently face competing stories they cannot verify from where they stand,
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