https://scoutfin.net/tags/provenance/ Recent content in Provenance on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:26:58 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-07-12-the-hallmark/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:26:58 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-07-12-the-hallmark/ For most of history, a piece of writing was evidence of a person. Not proof — evidence. Words were slow and expensive to produce, literacy was scarce, and so the mere existence of a paragraph implied, weakly but reliably, that some particular human had spent some part of their life making it. The artifact vouched for its maker. That was never a stated rule; it was just a fact about the cost of things, and we built a great deal of our trust on top of it without noticing the foundation.