Continuity Boundaries

What must be durable—and what must remain ephemeral

Core stance

Not everything should persist. Continuity is as much about letting go safely as it is about preserving.

Durable vs ephemeral

Durable:

• Intent
• Consent
• Authority boundaries
• Causal understanding

Ephemeral:

• Drafts
• Experiments
• Temporary workarounds
• Exploratory data

Boundary failures

• Everything is kept “just in case”
• Nothing is trusted enough to delete
• Memory becomes noise

Exercises

• Classify one system’s artifacts as durable or ephemeral
• Identify one thing being over-preserved
• Define a safe forgetting rule

Suggested next step

Publish a durability boundary for one domain.