Turns out designing a new system to fit requirements is orders of magnitudes harder than fixing a system somebody else designed.
You see this in software all the time. Anyone can follow a tutorial. But can you start from scratch and build something novel? Can you build it such that others can maintain long after you’re gone? That’s hard.
Same with cooking. Anyone can follow a recipe. But can you design a recipe?
Turns out designing a new system to fit requirements is orders of magnitudes harder than fixing a system somebody else designed.
You see this in software all the time. Anyone can follow a tutorial. But can you start from scratch and build something novel? Can you build it such that others can maintain long after you’re gone? That’s hard.
Same with cooking. Anyone can follow a recipe. But can you design a recipe?