When Your 'Clean' Snacks Taste Like Cardboard: The Missing Fat Fix
You open a bag of 'clean' kale chips. They smell like burnt dust. You chew. It's like eating dry leaves. You try a 'no-sugar' granola bar — it's basically sawdust glued with dates. You're not alone. The problem isn't you. It's the missing fat. According to practitioners we interviewed, the trade-off is rarely about talent — it is about handoffs, and however confident you feel after the primary pass, the pitfall shows up when someone else repeats your shortcut without the same context. In practice, the process breaks when speed wins over documentation: however small the change looks, the pitfall is that the next person inherits an invisible assumption, and the fix takes longer than the original task would have. This step looks redundant until the audit catches the gap.