> "deliberately seek elegant abstractions" This advice is too abstract, to be practically useful in real life. ? Is it a bit like saying: To be a good runner,

> "deliberately seek elegant abstractions" This advice is too abstract, to be practically useful in real life. ? Is it a bit like saying: To be a good runner, do this: Run fast. — Needs to be broken down into smaller more actionable steps. Still the other advice about talking with users, and looking around at other things out there, and spending time "thinking into the future" about how one's ideas will work out, and what to not include in the software — I like that advice :- )