Scaffolding is ugly. It’s temporary. It exists solely to help you build something real—and then it needs to be torn down. If you leave the scaffolding up, you can’t see the finished building. You just see the mess you made along the way.
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There is one rule to this practice:
Think of the last time you wrote something you were absolutely certain about. A political rant. A breakup letter you never sent. A brilliant startup idea. Now look at it six months later. Is it still brilliant? Or is it just… evidence ? Burn After Reading
We live in an age of permanence.
We mistake documentation for wisdom. We think that if we write it down, we must protect it, defend it, and build a shrine around it. But most of our ideas aren’t monuments. They are . Scaffolding is ugly