Messy Success: Engineering Beyond Imperfection's Limits

1. Things works pretty well even if everything is imperfect and messy, but only up to an extent. One objective of engineering is to learn where this extent is and how to change that extent, up to an (2nd order) extent, at will.
2. There is always another way, often a better one. https://x.com/engineers_feed/status/1344040496960684033

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