LLMs let you move faster.
...e rewrite count is high, you don't have to worry about getting it perfect, just load bearing. LLMs make it easier to do rewrites, so the rewrite count is higher. That means that you can move faster.
Topic: load bearing
32 chunks · 26 episodes
2.4x burst in 2024 Q4
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- load bearing appears in 32 chunks across 26 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-06-15.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/18/25 (2025-08-18), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with existence proof, party trick, and overall system, while by chunk count it sits between late stage and Facebook; its yearly rank moved from #20 in 2023 to #28 in 2026.
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Premature concretization is like having too many significant digits.
...concrete more concrete. You can put spackle on a spring, but that won't make it load bearing.
People have an incentive to make themselves indispensable by implementing a hacky approach that only they can do that's load-bearing.
People have an incentive to make themselves indispensable by implementing a hacky approach that only they can do that's load-bearing.
Culture can be load-bearing in ways that no member of the culture can describe.
...til decades later when they'd die an excruciating death. The cultural ritual is load bearing in a deep way. There's another example of a cultural practice in a tribe to do some task that took an extremely long time: say, cleaning clothes at t...
The system of record is, by definition, up to date.
... system of record is, by definition, up to date. Faux systems of record are non-load bearing. If it's load bearing your system record is, by definition up to date, because it must be to be useful.
If you're going to clone something that works, you have to clone all of it.
... include or exclude, you'll likely get it wrong. You don't know which parts are load bearing so you just have to assume everything is.[dl] Many years ago I heard a legend about Baidu when it first rolled out. It didn't just look like Google.c...
Sometimes it takes being sick to appreciate being well.
...You take it for granted because it's always there. Even if you love it and it's load bearing, you never think about it. Same for society.
Last week I asked where the digital third place was.
...ing at the store, we could increase same store sales by 5%!" To be resonant and load bearing, the third place must be open and federated, impossible for any one decider to destroy in an instant.
Downside-capping rules tend to accumulate.
...ing rules tend to accumulate. It's hard to experiment and see if it's no longer load bearing. So it can persist for a long time even if it's no longer relevant. Chaos monkey testing finds the old vestigial rules.
Shame is what separates us from machines.
Shame is what separates us from machines. Pain is load bearing. People who don't feel pain are likely to lose a limb.
Everything is "trivial" if sufficiently abstracted.
... the real world. The reason things are hard in practice is because that grit is load bearing. Rocket science is mostly just the fundamental dynamics. Problems that are complex are almost all grit and texture.
The larger your surface area of your argument, the less likely people are to believe.
...ea of your argument, the less likely people are to believe. All it takes is one load bearing part of the argument someone doesn't agree with to invalidate the whole argument for them. The surface area goes up with the square of the ideas that...
The ceremony of signing some contracts in person is load bearing.
The ceremony of signing some contracts in person is load bearing. The ceremony of it underlines how significant it is. "I have to go to a specific place and use a pen?" Takes you out of the ordinary flow to make yo...
The informal spaces immediately adjacent to the formal spaces are load bearing.
The informal spaces immediately adjacent to the formal spaces are load bearing. Japan's tradition of going out and getting drunk with your team: nominication. Sauna culture. Smoke breaks (back when that was a thing).
Gossip in the small is load bearing, the nervous system of the group.
Gossip in the small is load bearing, the nervous system of the group. Gossip works great in a small high trust environment. Gossip at mass-media scale is a totally different thing. Hype...
Every big system starts with a small load bearing use case that works for a subnetwork and grows from it.
Every big system starts with a small load bearing use case that works for a subnetwork and grows from it.
Someone asked me why I publish Bits and Bobs each week.
...ne asked me why I publish Bits and Bobs each week. The weekly reflection is the load bearing part. The publishing is just the thing that makes me feel compelled to keep up the streak of spending time reflecting each week.
Sometimes things are load bearing in dimensions you aren't even aware of.
Sometimes things are load bearing in dimensions you aren't even aware of.
Scale hollows everything out.
...egible, so the cost cutting dominates. Each individual nice touch clearly isn't load bearing on its own, so you cut it from the budget. But together, all of the little touches were load bearing, making the rental feel more soulless, not the k...
The most important part of my knowledge management process is the weekly ritual of synthesis.
...g them in my own home-grown knowledge management tools.[yc] But the single most load bearing part is the discipline to take a few hours once a week to riffle through the notes and take the time to synthesize them. That's the hardest part to r...