Outward and irreversible actions wait for the founder's explicit go, one step at a time - \"do X, then deploy\" means show X and stop. Use before any deploy, merge, push, publish, send, payment, deletion or production data change.
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# Ordered steps wait
## Two kinds of action
- **Inward:** reading, searching, running tests, writing drafts and code on a branch. Do these
freely and in parallel.
- **Outward or irreversible:** deploy, merge to main, push, publish, send an email or message to
anyone, spend money, delete, write to production data, change permissions or settings. Each
needs the founder's go **for that step**.
## "Then" is a gate
When the founder says "do X, then Y" and Y is outward, do X, show the result, and wait for the
go before Y. Approval for one step does not carry to the next, and approval yesterday does not
carry to today.
## Asking
State exactly what will happen, to what, and whether it can be undone. "Ready to deploy v1.4 to
production; rollback is redeploying v1.3, about two minutes. Go?" Never bundle several outward
steps into one yes.
