I seem to have a whole schoolyard of inner children running around in there. Does that count?
More seriously:
"But merely adequate solutions (what engineers call "kluges") -- like the awkward, injury-prone human spine, good enough but far from perfect -- can stick around indefinitely if better solutions are too far away on the evolutionary landscape."
Compare this to the dictum, "Do the simplest thing possible that works."
Are "merely adequate solutions " always kluges? I think not.
after being familiar with Jungian psychometrics, a lot of these things seem off. for example, there are personality types that are easily distracted (eg ENFJ), and there are types that are impossible to distract (eg INTJ)
that's beside the point of the article, but often reading these things is like watching someone trying to do arithmetic with roman numerals instead of the much more arithmetic-friendly arabic notation
More seriously:
"But merely adequate solutions (what engineers call "kluges") -- like the awkward, injury-prone human spine, good enough but far from perfect -- can stick around indefinitely if better solutions are too far away on the evolutionary landscape."
Compare this to the dictum, "Do the simplest thing possible that works."
Are "merely adequate solutions " always kluges? I think not.