Keeping it · The trust reading · Element

The recovery lag

How long belief takes to return after a failure.

The part

What it is

Belief falls quickly and returns slowly, and the asymmetry is the reason a period of unreliability is more expensive than its direct costs suggest.

Knowing the lag is what makes the case for protecting the promise during a difficult period rather than quietly suspending it.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.