Humans are bad at judging how hard a problem is
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problem though is that I don't think humans are very good at determining how hard a problem actually is.
Episode 220: Blame the Box! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:34:43 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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When Adam wonders why a seemingly simple project is so hard, Dave explains that we see a complete vision of the thing with all its parts working at once. If you could flowchart it in your head and never write the software, it would be perfect. Once you break it into a linear series of steps, you find the vision is valid but getting there is far harder.
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Episode 220: Blame the Box! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:11:41 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Because like, so you flow chart this thing in your head and it all makes perfect sense. And if you could just stop there and never write the software, it would be perfect.
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Episode 220: Blame the Box! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:35:28 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
But if you actually can like break that down into a series of linear events to say, do this, then this, then this, then this.
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