aphorism

Nor any kind of aphorism, since it doesn't make any kind of sense.

The real world is rarely simple, and people who try to force it to conform to the simple schemes they can understand almost always get effects that they didn't expect or want.

Trump wanted his bunker buster bombs to obliterate the Iranian underground nuclear enrichment factories, and he's been remarkably unwilling to admit that he doesn't know if they had the desired effect, and can't know until somebody digs down into the complex and finds out what they actually did.

Peter Hegseth got quite snotty about the press not taking the Pentagon's computer models as seriously as he would have liked them too.

Good idea. Much abused. Long history:

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Joe

Some engineers will start with a basic design and make it more complex. Some will work to make it simpler.

Most will work to make it work. Most roads lead to greater complexity, but sometimes you get lucky.

The future is hardware engineers and predictive text chatbots:

HR at white collar/cubical farm/SaS-type companies can just give up hiring for a position and close it in despair when they get swamped with resumes, and just spend what they'd have spent on salaries on more chat bots. But hardware companies probably eventually notice that hardware isn't getting designed.

I'm applying the concept of radical simplicity to my new venture: winter hats made out of prime rib. It saves costs spinning yarn and the freezing cold acts as a natural preservative.

Slogan: "You'll always look neat, in a hat made of meat."