Reminds me of this Rich Hickey quote: “So how do we make things easy? … There's a location aspect. Making something at hand, putting it in our toolkit, that's

Reminds me of this Rich Hickey quote: “So how do we make things easy? … There's a location aspect. Making something at hand, putting it in our toolkit, that's relatively simple. … Then there's the aspect of how do I make it familiar, right? I may not have ever seen this before. That's a learning exercise. I've got to go get a book, go take a tutorial, have somebody explain it to me. … Then we have this other part though, which is the mental capability part. And that's the part that's always hard to talk about, the mental capability part because, the fact is, we can learn more things. [But] we actually can't get much smarter. We're not going to move; we're not going to move our brain closer to the complexity. We have to make things near by simplifying them. But the truth here is not that there are these super, bright people who can do these amazing things and everybody else is stuck, because the juggling analogy is pretty close. Right? The average juggler can do three balls. The most amazing juggler in the world can do, like, 9 balls or 12 or something like that. They can't do 20 or 100. We're all very limited. Compared to the complexity we can create, we're all statistically at the same point in our ability to understand it, which is not very good. So we're going to have to bring things towards us. 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?” https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...