diff --git a/settings/org-settings.el b/settings/org-settings.el
index 305f45a2..83321036 100644
--- a/settings/org-settings.el
+++ b/settings/org-settings.el
@@ -1368,7 +1368,8 @@ used as a communication channel."
   (setq org-reveal-single-file t))
 
 (use-package ox-tufte   ;; https://melpa.org/#/ox-tufte
-  :after (ox)  ;; not loaded via `org-export-backends' (inside `org')
+  :defer t
+  ;; :after (ox)  ;; not loaded via `org-export-backends' (inside `org')
   :config
   (defun org-tufte-src-block (src-block _contents info)
      "Transcode a SRC-BLOCK element from Org to HTML.