# cutting corners (margin)

*Ordinarily means:* doing something in the easiest or fastest way, often by skipping steps.

Optimization that narrows a thing's window by removing parts that had maintained its boundary, leaving it near a wall where drift will end it.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence.lexicon  ·  Arena: language

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [margin](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-margin.spatial)

**Through:** folk_gloss

**Novel properties:**
- emergence

## Examples
- The 2008 financial crisis followed deregulation that removed risk buffers in mortgage lending, accelerating systemic collapse. *(economics)*
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 1940 after engineers omitted structural reinforcements to save material. *(engineering)*
- Chernobyl's reactor exploded during a test where safety protocols were bypassed to meet schedule demands. *(institutions)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cutting-corners.margin*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cutting-corners.margin.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*