“Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well.”
–Don Norman
This principle comes from Jonathan Blow.
When a system (like software, or a business, or an economy) gets complicated, the increased complication spreads like a cancer. This cancer destroys knowledge in three specific ways.
There’s more to know
More to know means less c…
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