The speaker is Clojure creator Rich Hickey, but the talk is about a mental model for thinking about complexity. Inherent complexity involves tradeoffs. Incide

The speaker is Clojure creator Rich Hickey, but the talk is about a mental model for thinking about complexity. Inherent complexity involves tradeoffs. Incidental complexity you can fix for free. "And because we can only juggle so many balls, you have to make a decision. How many of those balls do you want to be incidental complexity and how many do you want to be problem complexity?" The article is about the former. I bet the latter dominates day-to-day line-of-business coding. Highly recommend the talk, as other have said.