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> Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things.

This would be the most efficient title, subtitle, and entire contents of most posts about programming principles.

However, each reader has to have a similar enough perspective, background, and experience to understand and apply it. In that sense, the trend line measuring the value of commenting about comments about random blog posts indeed indicates wasted time, but hopefully it's a local minima.

My pithy corollary to your helpful tautology is a quote from Tommy Angelo that's stuck with me since my poker days: "The decisions that trouble us most are the ones that matter least."

Decisions are necessarily difficult to make when the expected value of either outcome are similar. We waste an awful lot of time on choices that could have been made just as well with a coin flip.

So there you go world: two quotes that are generally useful about generalities that are locked, loaded, and ready to shoot you in the foot when misapplied.

Edit: formatting improvement.




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