Transmission

Children, teaching, written work, built artifacts, institutions, financial structures. Each vehicle has different bandwidth, different durability, different failure modes, different costs. Choosing the portfolio of vehicles deliberately is among the highest-stakes engineering problems any individual faces — and it is made possible only by the death constraint.

The internal audit asks what your process did with its allocation. The persistence audit asks what your process produced that continues operating in the larger system after termination. Different questions. Both architectural. Both available before the deathbed.