A pattern for evolving a platform: continuous sublimation.

· Bits and Bobs 8/11/25
  • A pattern for evolving a platform: continuous sublimation.
    • Add new prototype concepts at the userland layer as merely a convention.
    • The conventions that stay around and get built on, emergently, are the ones to continue investing in, by making them more efficient, more baked into the platform properly, to get more leverage out of them.
    • The conventions that turned out to not be that useful dissolve away over time.
    • As more layers get built on top, it puts more pressure on top and turns the leaf litter into coal and then into diamonds.
      • (Yes, I know that diamonds aren't formed from compressed coal, but I'm taking some literary license.)