the.com/overload
the exact moment more stops being better and starts being broken.
means a state where the demand placed on a system exceeds what it was built to handle, so it degrades, buckles, or shuts down.
from from over- plus load, both plain old english/germanic stock, first paired in the 1800s for electrical circuits carrying more current than their wires could survive without melting.
circuit breakersinvented specifically to interrupt overload before fire starts
human versioncognitive overload was named decades before computers had memory limits
same root ideaservers, muscles, and brains fail by the identical logic
for instance
northeast blackout 1965 — one relay tripped, 30 million people lost power
aws outage 2017 — one engineer's typo overloaded servers, broke a third of the internet
tokyo rail rush hour — platforms run near capacity daily, pushers employed to close doors