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Why settle with "just fine"?

• mindcrime 8y ago
  Opportunity cost. Time spent trying to come up with a better solution to something that doesn't need a better solution, is time that isn't being spent doing something more valuable. OTOH, one could argue that pursuing a seemingly trivial improvement to an existing solution could - by serendipity - lead to a breakthrough that actually does solve other problems as well. But I'd guess that, on balance, there's a greater payoff for spending time on something besides incremental tweaks to existing solutions. But that's just a guess...