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Field guide 8

The Famine Month

Why lumpy funding makes every recurring commitment feel like a risk

Every ecosystem that builds ventures

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What it argues

The question is almost never whether something is worth it. The question is whether you can commit to it now, in this part of the cycle, with what you have. Those are completely different questions and only one of them gets asked.

What you take away

  • Cost nothing to start

  • Be stoppable without penalty

  • Require no window that does not exist

  • Have a path to paying for itself

  • Preserve capability across the reset

  • Make the cycle visible to the board

  • Reduce the volatility that lands on staff

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