It was mentioned, the striving for the best bit, but may have been me reading in between the lines.
The little bits in the article really resonate with me, in particular what I spot in my field (software dev / distributed systems) is that at high level there looks like many great solutions exist, but when you look deeper in you see that many of them are inelegant, and only reason they weren’t done better was because no one actually spent time on that particular minute thing. it likely got implemented as part of a bigger patch and still deemed “good enough”.
I theorise that many fields are similar if you look deep enough
The little bits in the article really resonate with me, in particular what I spot in my field (software dev / distributed systems) is that at high level there looks like many great solutions exist, but when you look deeper in you see that many of them are inelegant, and only reason they weren’t done better was because no one actually spent time on that particular minute thing. it likely got implemented as part of a bigger patch and still deemed “good enough”.
I theorise that many fields are similar if you look deep enough