This.
Anticipation is key.
Provisioning a fund for emergency situations should be a priority for long-term growth.
Productive capital generating yield over time and compounding, professionally managed by a curator like Steakhouse, Gauntlet or Chaos Labs to name a few.
Public infra needs a dedicated reserve pot funded by its own revenue. For maintenance, emergency patches, and on-call engineers.
This isn't optional. It's the baseline cost of running mission-critical software.
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