Re-check your bearing.

Automation is never finished, because the work it runs on never stops changing. Models update. Businesses pivot. Markets turn. Customers change their minds without sending a memo. Every system you set up was built for the work as it stood that day, and it started aging the moment the ink dried.

This is why a compass isn’t something you look at just once. The terrain moves under you, so you keep taking a fresh bearing. The discipline costs almost nothing: small, scheduled attention prevents enormous, unscheduled catastrophe. You are not building a surveillance bureaucracy. You’re holding a meeting you’ll be tempted to skip.

From Running at the Speed of Light, Chapter Fourteen · Prometheus Press