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the margin · on systems

Fix it upstream

It starts as one small update, and then you find the tangle behind it. Fix everything upstream instead—learn from previous lessons—so everything downstream feeds from the one fixed source.

It always starts small—one little update to one document. And then you pull that thread and find the whole tangle sitting behind it.

So don't patch the one thing. Fix everything upstream. Learn from the previous lessons, restructure the source once, and let everything downstream feed from that single fixed place.

Do it once at the root, and it stops coming back.

1 stroke · first noted june 2026 · lives in on systems
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