I manifest consistency.

Consistency breaks on bad days, not good ones, which is why it has to be protected from below rather than above. The people who never miss are usually the ones who defined a version small enough to survive a fever — one page, ten minutes, to the end of the road and back.

It feels like cheating. It is the entire mechanism. A chain that is never broken does not have to be restarted, and restarting is where nearly all of the cost lives. The small version is not a lesser day; it is the day that keeps the other ones possible.