Calm is not always a sign that things are working.
Often, it’s a sign that the costs have been moved: into the future, into the margins, into lives we don’t see.

This essay explores borrowed calm: how modern systems maintain stability by postponing consequences, and why misreading that calm is becoming one of our most expensive mistakes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/borrowed-calm-postponed-consequences?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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