I think what's getting me is a really superficial notion of what 'solving problems' means. It's a leaking ceiling, a bucket under the leak ostensibly 'fixes' y

I think what's getting me is a really superficial notion of what 'solving problems' means. It's a leaking ceiling, a bucket under the leak ostensibly 'fixes' your original problem of water spilling out onto the floor, but now you've got the problem that at some point, the bucket will fill up. It's rare for most problems you face in the workplace for the difficult part to be actually solving the problem. It's solving it in a way that doesn't just create three other messes elsewhere, in a way that somebody else can come along and understand how the problem was solved and in a way that doesn't hamstring you in the future. Some of these quotes are really baffling. I mean, he must be being facetious or something.