C010 — History sediments and entrenches constraints

Claim: Past constraints become stored in structure (sedimentation) and can become load-bearing for further development (entrenchment), so history shapes future possibility.
Status: solid · Confidence: high · Module: M04

Plain-language restatement

What you built yesterday becomes the scaffolding — or the trap — of tomorrow.

Example

Legacy code, foundational laws, or early product decisions that everything later depends on.

Concepts

entrenchment · context

Source anchors

CCE chs. 9–10
REPORT §4.4
Talk: Pronovix I5cqPct3yXQ (“remember their past”)