He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

— Francis Bacon

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Standing still is not a neutral position, because the situation around you keeps moving whether or not you do. Methods that worked perfectly get quietly outpaced by changing conditions, and the cost arrives as new problems the old approach cannot even describe. Refusing to change is therefore a choice with consequences rather than the absence of one. Time does the innovating whether or not you take part.

Find one process you have kept because it used to work. Ask what has changed around it since you set it up. Updating something before it fails is much cheaper than the alternative.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which old fix of yours has stopped working on a new problem?

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