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...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...
... 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.
... 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...
...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.
...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.
...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. Pain is load bearing. People who don't feel pain are likely to lose a limb.
... 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.
...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 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. 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 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.
...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.
...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...
...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...
...ibution event. The government is well suited to be inefficient in ways that are load bearing in ways no "efficient" actor would be. Who else would stockpile millions and millions of masks just in case a pandemic broke out?
"Inefficiency" is often load bearing in ways you don't understand yet.
... remove it, you might find that other emergent effects rely on it and that it's load bearing. For example, maybe you have an emergent ruinous empathy kind of culture; removing some of the plys of social complexity might move you to the obnoxi...