I’ve noticed that my first solutions to things tend to be way too complex. But the irony is that when I first come up with them, I generally have no idea that this is true.<\/p>\n
I usually start out thinking “This looks like a really simple and elegant way to do this.” But then I start to implement the thing, and I begin to notice that various things are sticking out here and there.<\/p>\n
So I say to myself “Well, I don’t really need this part,” and I take something out. Which means that now I don’t really need that other part either, so I take that out too.<\/p>\n
After a number of iterations, I usually end up with something a lot simpler than the Rube Goldberg contraption that I had started with. At which point I generally ask myself “Hey, why didn’t I think of this in the first place?”<\/p>\n
Good question. Maybe eventually I will find a simple answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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