a quick check · 5 minutes

The operational debt self-diagnostic.

Operational debt is the gap between what your company decided and what it actually does. Nobody chooses to create it. Entropy doesn't need permission. Find yours.

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Part 1

Are you paying interest?

Part 2

Which kind of debt?

Part 3

Run the 4 B's on your stuck problem.

Name the problem that keeps coming back wearing different clothes. Then answer honestly — this is the diagnostic I run on $30M brands, and on myself.

Blind spot

What can't you see? What would someone outside the building notice in an hour?

Assumption

What are you assuming is true that you've never actually tested?

Belief

What do you believe about this that might just be a story you've kept?

Behavior

What do you keep doing that quietly keeps the problem alive?

Your diagnosis

0/ 5 symptoms firing

Decision debt

The library

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Where this fits: CLEAR to decide, TRUE to verify. One of five altitudes entropy attacks.

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Two or more symptoms and you're paying interest. This is a self-check, not a substitute for the real thing: bring me the one that stung most.

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