Principlev1
Prioritize environmental maintenance through reset rituals
Prioritize environmental maintenance through reset rituals and seasonal reviews over one-time optimization, recognizing that entropy will degrade any design that lacks active maintenance.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Human memory under stress and cognitive load is unreliable (memory unreliable under stress/load for executing intentions) and Task switching between different types of cognitive work (task switching costs increase with complexity). Without external systems maintaining environment state, it degrades. The principle prescribes maintenance rituals as essential infrastructure, not optional tidying.