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A System You Can Keep for Life
Dan Shipper
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Jul 2023
But organizing in anticipation is bad. Usually you end up building giant, complex systems that are cumbersome to use that you abandon after a few weeks.
24 Jul 2023
Well, instead of building a gigantic system up front what we want to do instead is build up a comprehensive system over time, piece by piece.
It’s a special case of Gall’s Law:
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”