Episode Three — Compatibility: The Fit Between Environment and Behavior

Episode Three exposes the architecture of compatibility — the fit between environmental demands and human capacity. Compatibility is not comfort or preference; it is the structural alignment that makes stability possible. When environments and people fall out of alignment, systems generate friction, effort increases, and behavior becomes compensatory. This episode breaks down the three forms of compatibility, the cost of misalignment, and the diagnostic patterns that reveal when an environment is producing instability long before behavior becomes visible.