Summary notes for "Resilience is a Verb"
TL;DR: Resilience is better thought of in terms of a system's potential capacity, rather than a state to be achieved. Adaptive capacity is "the potential for adjusting patterns of activities to handle future changes in the kinds of events, opportunities and disruptions experienced." Systems run in a degraded mode, continually experience SNAFUs, and are sustained by the adaptive responses of people (SNAFU Catchers).
https://mweagle.io/posts/papers/resilience-is-a-verb/
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One way I try to keep this in mind is to imagine before the system existed. All was effectively "failure to produce desired outcomes". People worked together to co-create the illussion of stability.
And since conditions, tempo, and scale have always changing, there's never been a point where the system switched from continual co-creation to pre-existing truth.