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If you jump to the far reaches of your adjacent possible, you'll only be able to do the First 90%. You won't have time to do the Second 90%. That means that you need to stick with it, to actually rely on what you built and make it load-bearing. When a thing is load-bearing, the Second 90% gets done
Empathy is a load bearing component of being human. We are weak alone, we are only viable as a community. Empathy makes sure things line up in the long term.
...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.
...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.
...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.