Go read Bruce Sterling's 1993 article on something relatively straight forward, like glue: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/3zode9/bruce_sterling_on_how_su

Go read Bruce Sterling's 1993 article on something relatively straight forward, like glue: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/3zode9/bruce_sterling_on_how_superglue_is_hfy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/3zode9/bruce_sterling_... I've done a bit more reading about paint; if anything, it's even more complicated than glue (bigger design space, for one thing: https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/materials-and-applications/paints.html https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/materials-and-appl... )