Principlev1

Identify the essential function each routine serves and

Identify the essential function each routine serves and design minimum viable versions that preserve that function with minimal infrastructure, rather than compressing the same activities into less time.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Abstraction Necessarily Discards Information (abstraction retains relevant features), Hierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity (chunking allows functional units), and Agents are systems defined by perceiving their environment (agents defined by perceiving and acting toward goals). The principle prescribes functional rather than temporal compression, which follows from understanding that routines serve functions, not durations. Highly actionable and general across routine types.

Source Lessons

L-1163

The minimum viable routine

Have a stripped-down version of every important routine that works during disruptions.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomAbstraction Necessarily Discards Information AxiomHierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity AxiomAgents are systems defined by perceiving their environment

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