Add hormesis principle (stimulate, don't annihilate) to science→GTM doc - #45
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New Biology entry: the right dose of stress strengthens, too much harms — pace a growth motion/budget/team to adapt, not to failure; protect the slow-to-recover parts. Two verified attributed quotes (Paracelsus; Hans Selye) + a real example (Basecamp). Bumps the principle count 21 → 22.
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🤖 Babysit-PRs — 2026-07-11
No action needed. Test-plan checked the first two boxes but left "Reads cleanly in the rendered doc" unticked — manually verified the diff: the new Hormesis entry matches the page's existing format exactly (plain explanation, two attributed quotes, real-company example) and reads cleanly. Leaving the checkbox for Edwin rather than editing the PR description. Generated by Claude Code |
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Summary
Adds one Biology entry to
docs/principles-from-science.md— hormesis, the scientific name for "stimulate, don't annihilate":Matches the page's existing format: plain explanation, two verified, attributed quotes (Paracelsus, c.1538; Hans Selye, The Stress of Life, 1956), and a real-company example (Basecamp / 37signals). Bumps the count 21 → 22.
Why
The public kit's science→GTM page had leverage, momentum, entropy, compounding — but nothing on pacing the load. Hormesis fills that gap and is generic/portable (no Edwin- or LangOptima-specific content), consistent with the rest of the giveaway repo.
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Part of a four-repo set (Personal #79, growth-os #200, LangOptima-General, this).
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