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Mental agility used to be a synonym for IQ. But it's a function of quality, not age. Or IQ. Good people make difficult things simple. Poor people make simple t

Mental agility used to be a synonym for IQ. But it's a function of quality, not age. Or IQ. Good people make difficult things simple. Poor people make simple things difficult and overcomplicated. It's a two quadrant problem with good and smart being the ideal, and poor and not smart being the worst. Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand. IME often also comes with personality issues. Good and not smart can be workable with good guidance.

zasdffaa 4y ago
> Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand OMG yes, had one of these once. A simple application because a dog-slow matryoshka of virtualisation and containers stitched together with queues and microservices, distributed over a cluster. One good server, a database and a bit of plain coding could have done the job, and been vastly faster as well. But his version was going to be so scalable! (haha, not even slightly. Edit: and he couldn't understand why)