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Think of a clerk who spent two years fixing a filing system that every office now uses.
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This shape builds working systems for other people, improving on what is in place and testing each part first, so the finished thing is taken up and used. Careful testing takes time, and the old system has to go on running, faults and all, until the new one is ready.
Each life here is drawn from its own record, which shows the shape.
Between 1858 and 1875 the engineer Joseph Bazalgette built 82 miles of brick main sewers for London, fed by about 1,100 miles of street drains and made far larger than the city then needed; more than 80 miles of them are still in full use. A system sized for the city to come, and still working more than a century after its maker died, shows the shape from outside.
Sources: londonmuseum.org.uk, english-heritage.org.uk
Andrés Bello spent about fifteen years writing the Civil Code of Chile, building chiefly on the Spanish law already in force; promulgated in 1855 and adopted with few changes by Ecuador and Colombia, it is still in force in Chile. Old law reworked into a clearer whole, and still in use more than a century and a half later, shows the shape from outside.
Sources: bcn.cl, memoriachilena.gob.cl, en.wikipedia.org
The Moonshot shares three of these sides and differs on risk: it leaves the old way behind and bets heavily on something new, while this shape improves what is already there and builds it to last.
Each shares three sides with this shape. On the right is the side it has instead.