202108011323 simplicity

Via Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect:

1. We observe a pattern
2. We create abstractions and generalisations
3. We turn the abstractions into a framework
4. The framework becomes a Golden Hammer
5. People start to subvert the framework
6. Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity

• Yak Shaving

• Bike Shedding

• Gumption traps - saps your energy, undermines your faith or otherwise causes you to falter in your drive see https://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/the-gaps-crap-and-gumption-traps-in-creative-work.html

• We tend to solve the wrong problem.

  • Example, if we needed a monkey singing opera standing on a chair. We might focus on how we build the chair...not why or how we get a monkey to sing.

• Optimize for ease of change see Don't make big decisions, make big decisions irrelevant in Making decisions