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Building a Floor Under the Fall

Balance 22where you go for footing when things come apart.

Under real pressure you build - not tidy, build. Within a day of bad news you have a structure: who does what, what the sequence is, where the money comes from, what happens if this takes a year. You steady yourself by making something load-bearing out of chaos, and the people around you stand on it whether or not they notice. The cost is scale. You can construct an apparatus far larger than the crisis required, and then feel obliged to maintain it long after the emergency has passed. The mature version builds to fit. Make the structure, name the date you will dismantle it, and let one part of the situation stay unengineered so there is somewhere for feeling to go.

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