What does not travel
The inventory of losses, sorted by whether a mechanism could carry them, nobody built one, or nothing could.
three things · two reached them · one with no channel at all · the room side is not counted
Sorted by whether anything could have carried it.
The Decision That Was Made in Passing
Nobody held a meeting, nobody wrote anything down, and by Thursday it was simply how things are.
The Reasoning Goes First
The decision usually travels. The argument behind it almost never does, and it is the part worth keeping.
That a Conversation Is Happening at All
You cannot ask to be included in something you do not know exists. The hardest loss to even notice.
Who Was Persuaded and Who Was Outlasted
Whether a decision has real agreement behind it is carried almost entirely by things no record holds.
That Somebody Is Struggling and Has Not Said So
A room reports this within days. Everywhere else it surfaces when it has already become serious.
The Priority That Changed Unannounced
Priorities drift in conversation long before anybody restates them, and the drift reaches the room first.
What the Client Actually Said
Three retellings of one call produce three versions, and the person outside gets whichever one reaches them.
Who Got Asked, and Who Got Overlooked
Work is handed out by whoever is visible at the moment it appears, which is a question of seating.
Sorting the Losses Into Three Piles
Carried already, could be carried if somebody built something, or cannot be carried by anything. Sorted, not lamented.