Principlev1
Treat disruptions to established behaviors as unplanned
Treat disruptions to established behaviors as unplanned experiments that reveal which elements were robust versus fragile.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Catastrophic failures in complex systems rarely result from (catastrophic failures from aligned failures) and The behavior of a system arises from its structure, not from (system behavior arises from structure). Disruptions expose hidden structural dependencies.