Rule 21 of 22 · Chapter V — On the Long Run
Revisit these rules every year
Why this rule exists
A rule you never revisit slowly turns into a rule you no longer mean. People change; what fit you at thirty may quietly stop fitting at forty. Revisiting these once a year keeps them honest, keeps them mine. I've found that the act of rereading them matters as much as any edit: it makes me answer for how I'm actually living.
In practice
Pick a date you'll remember, a birthday or a new year, and read these slowly. Ask which ones you kept, which you drifted from, which no longer ring true. Rewrite freely; cut what's gone stale. I try to treat it as an honest reckoning, not a performance, and to make real changes, not cosmetic ones.
When it doesn't apply
Revisiting isn't an excuse to quietly delete the rules that got inconvenient. Some principles should survive your worst year precisely because you'd be tempted to drop them. Update the wording; be careful editing away the parts that were meant to hold you.