The Bible, the periodic table, and the three-act structure all succeed for the same reason: optimized compression architecture.
https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/architecture-vs-content
Architecture vs. Content

Drowning, as we are, in words — billions, in blog posts, tweets, articles, and books published each year — we instinctively believe that what we say matters most. The perfect turn of phrase, the elegant metaphor, the devastating counterargument. But when I recall the most persuasive arguments I've encountered, what lingers isn't always the specific words - it’s their arrangement. The architecture of ideas, not their individual bricks. Consider language models. They generate text by predicting...

@Daojoan this is an awesome read.