While I am given to argument for the sake of argument, especially with friends whilst consuming beverages hot or cold, I don't write this either to take issue o

While I am given to argument for the sake of argument, especially with friends whilst consuming beverages hot or cold, I don't write this either to take issue or to initiate an argument (though I do have a 48IBU bevvie close at hand and am optimistic enough to believe your worldview and mine overlap sufficiently).... I don't think I've ever thought of hacking as sexy. It has for me always been about a blend of intellectual curiosity and pragmatic delivery: I need to do <aThing>, how can I reasonably balance timely delivery, goal-appropriate level of effort, sense of accomplishment, and intellectual curiosity and fascination? Or how I can so exaggerate one of those (usually the last) so as to justify the result as a truly great hack? A duct taped bumper isn't a hack, it's a fugly kludge, no elegance or creativity at all. A bumper held in place by super powerful magnets? yeah, that's a hack. (Not a good one, that sucker's fallin' at a bump, but, dude, magnets!) Your examples are all sexy hacks, this is true. But to me sexiness never entered into the input parameters of the hack, but was only ever an indicator of the hack's true elegance. (Perhaps had I incorporated design thinking into my approach long before I would be violently in agreement with you on all points.... Hmm, cogitative nutrition.)