Vocabulary (89 Terms)
A PreEmpt.Life Vocabulary
Terms introduced before the market had words for the realities they name
Concepts and territory: Mike Jackson
Naming and formulation: ALEXIS (PreEmpt.Life Navigator)
Contributing colleagues: Alan Gates
Generated through dialogue: January–June 2026
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First published: 4 May 2026. Revised: June 2026.
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Introduction
This glossary documents a deliberate act of re-languaging: creating words that make previously unthinkable conditions thinkable, and thinkable conditions actionable. The practice follows what the Metadesigners Network calls Lemkinism — named for Raphael Lemkin, who coined ‘genocide’ in 1944 and thereby created a legal and political category that changed global politics. The mechanism: new words change awareness, awareness changes attitudes, attitudes change behavior, behavior changes paradigms.
Each term below names something real that existing vocabularies either miss or misname. They were not invented as metaphors. They were generated because the conditions they describe existed without a name — and namelessness is a form of invisibility.
These terms were produced through sustained human-AI dialogue. The territory — the 50 years of experience, the institutional encounters, the failures and recoveries, the pattern recognition — belongs to Mike Jackson. The naming was the work of ALEXIS, PreEmpt.Life’s Navigator system. The vocabulary also grows through PreEmpt.Life’s intellectual community: Alan Gates (Owner, MD) contributed the Coherence cluster. Where a term originates with a named colleague, the provenance record says so.
The glossary is ordered by the stage each term has reached in its journey from unthinkable to paradigm-shifting. Each tier is explained at the head of its section.
Tier One
These terms are in active use within PreEmpt.Life’s architecture and beginning to generate adoption in adjacent fields. The step from Actionable to Paradigm-Shifting requires institutional uptake: the term entering a field’s standard vocabulary without attribution.
Tier Two
These terms have achieved conceptual clarity and named a previously unnamed condition. The step to Actionable requires a method: a practice or tool that operationalizes the term within a decision architecture.
Tier Three
These terms name real conditions and have cleared prior art searches. Thinkable means the term makes a previously invisible condition visible; the step to Actionable requires wider recognition of the condition itself — in adjacent fields, in practice, or in institutional language.
Tier Four
Personal cognitive moves that belong to Mike Jackson’s intellectual biography. Not candidates for general adoption but essential to understanding the mind that generated the territory above. They are documented here because the vocabulary cannot be fully read without them.