Most bad decisions begin with an upgrade. A better model, a cleaner dashboard, a stronger benchmark. The surface improved and the decision got worse.
One question catches that mistake before you adopt a tool, buy a company, or trust a metric: what still has a job after the change?
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The Five Laws of Durable Systems
What still has a job after the change? Five tests for seeing what is likely to survive. The framework the Durability Curve is built on.