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...ws the good but prevents the bad. But it's fundamentally slow. That slowness is load bearing! "All of these checks and balances make it hard to do bold things quickly!" "...And they also make us significantly more likely to survive in the fir...
...ifference. In BitCoin, the energy use is the point. The price of computation is load bearing. It's what makes the ecosystem hard to fork, in proportion with how much energy is invested. As computers get more efficient at doing the mining, tha...
Some party tricks are load bearing. Imagine an AI feature that is potentially creepy… but that works entirely on device. The party trick is that you can flip on airplane mode and it st...
How load bearing and lightly held is an idea? Load bearing and not lightly held: don't bother debating because it won't change. Take it as a given and debate the thin...
... overall system that subtly assumes that it works in the one way, which will be load bearing and get increasingly heavy and hard to swap. If you allow swapping out providers at that layer and support all of them it forces you to keep it flexi...
...hings that are important and hard are often not legible yet. So you'll reap the load bearing things in the most important spaces. Employees intuitively understand this: one of the strongest motivators as an employee is to work on a thing that...
...at made them successful. The thing they think they're doing and what's actually load bearing is likely different.
When studying other companies, it's easy to pick and choose the wrong details about how they work, erroneously thinking they're load-bearing. It's the whole, situated cocktail of self-reinforcing ideas. A lot of the details about how they work aren't actually important on their own, but rather as pa
...e top layer is fragile, but once things are built on top it becomes durable and load bearing, even if it's a bit suboptimal or weird.