Hey, help me out here.
Is it my imagination or some cognitive bias, that whenever I’m trying to solve a problem, the best solution also always turns out to be the most elegant?
I can’t think of a situation where a messy / “involved” solution to a problem wasn’t hands down inferior to a more elegant, in fact beautiful-looking solution I found later.
And it seems like that for most other problem solving in life, even in human relationships.
Of course, there can be elegant solutions that don’t work at all – but then, they’re not solutions?
So here’s an idea: elegance as an engineering metric.
- Source: Ishikawa crafts https://www.ishikawatravel.jp/en/stories/traditional-crafts/ ↩︎
