The easy problems in technology were solved long ago
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The easy problems are all in technology, the easy problems are all solved. They were all solved a long time ago.
Episode 142: Bottom Funnel (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:35:33 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Believing in elegant, simple solutions to inherently hard problems (like decentralization or general AI) is self-deception. Even a beautiful three-line macro had to become an ugly static table to handle one odd network card constant.
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Episode 142: Bottom Funnel (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:44:08 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
he is still operating under this idea. That there's this, that it's possible to have elegant, easy, simple solutions to difficult problems. And that is, that is not accurate, either.
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