Ok, here’s a weird little observation about complexity.
I’ve noticed that as you get better and better at something, the perceived complexity of what you do stays constant even though the actual complexity increases. Learning stuff adds repetitive tasks to muscle memory and reduces understanding to patterns. The pattern matching and integration of skills decreases your perceived complexity. Then, since we are gluttons for making things hard again, we add more detail or steps or features to what we are creating or doing.
It seems as a creature, it’s really hard to allow things to just simplify. Is that too boring?
{Astronaut photograph ISS016-E-27586 is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment. The image was taken by the Expedition 16 crew, and is provided by the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.}