When movement creates its own resistance. The self-generated friction pattern.
Strune (stroon) is the physics pattern where forward movement generates backward drag. It's when your own actions create the very resistance you're trying to overcome. The harder you push, the stronger the resistance becomes—because you're creating it.
Creating processes to fix problems caused by too many processes. Each new system adds friction to solve friction from the last system.
Example: Approval chains that create the delays they're meant to prevent
Solution: Delete, don't add
More meetings to discuss why nothing gets done. More channels to coordinate fragmented communication. More updates about lack of progress.
Example: Daily standups about why yesterday's standup items aren't done
Solution: Stop talking, start doing
Optimizing systems that shouldn't exist. Perfecting processes that create no value. Making the wrong thing more efficient.
Example: Automating reports nobody reads
Solution: Question existence before efficiency
Growing complexity faster than capability. Each expansion creates more problems than it solves. Success becomes the source of failure.
Example: Hiring to manage problems created by hiring
Solution: Constraint before expansion
Strune feeds on motion. Starve it with stillness.
Identify where your solution becomes your problem.
Remove the action creating resistance. Don't add more.
Change direction entirely. Don't push through—go around.
The only way to break strune is to stop doing what created it. Not do it better. Not do it differently. Stop. The pattern cannot survive without your participation.
Stop creating the resistance you're fighting. Start moving without friction.