Reading a protocol before you build on it
Most teams meet a protocol through a landing page and a pitch deck. That is the wrong order. Before any roadmap leans on a network, someone on the team should walk it the way we walk dictionaries: concept first, mechanism second, venue third.
The pass we teach has four steps. Scope — write one sentence about the question the network answers. Draft — sketch how records move between participants, on paper, without jargon. Review — walk that sketch with the whole team until the quietest person can run it aloud. Ship — only then open the code.
It reads slowly because it is meant to. A team that cannot state what a protocol promises will have its roadmap written by somebody else’s documentation.
