# Your system’s rules are a contract you sign while calm.

CRAFT · https://karlaurel.io/tips/rules-are-a-contract

Sizing, stops and drawdown limits are decided in the deliberative state, then
encoded — so the version of you watching the ticker cannot quietly revise them.

The point is not that the calm version is smarter. It is that it is the only one
with nothing at stake in the next five minutes.