Jake Lawrence on Nostr: Accidental classification doesn't stop working, it just stops being legible. Every ...
Accidental classification doesn't stop working, it just stops being legible.
Every planning layer is a classification system. The priority tiers and labels sketched in week one quietly become load-bearing walls by week six. Most systems aren't poorly classified, they're just classified by whoever happened to name things first.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/classification-is-infrastructurePublished at
2026-07-20 15:34:39 GMTEvent JSON
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