When it’s brand new it moves awkwardly through the world, when it settles in it hopefully thrives for a time.

But even if it does, no matter how successful it might be, eventually its routine wears its effectiveness down, its body starts to fail and it can no longer perform its role.

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The risk is gone. The fear is gone. The opportunists move in.

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Every policy or process doc I write now has a section called “Reasons to Revisit.” It is essentially a reverse success criteria. […] I write about things I would expect to see if the policy needed substantial revisions or to just be killed off altogether.

— Marianne Bellotti, The Death of Process