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Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Dr. Wayne Dyer

... sometimes to "why bother?"

aka problem reformation aka design aka dissolving problems (Ackoff)

Or fitting the answer. I guess, at times, it's almost the same thing.

As soon as you have the right question, then the engineering part is not that hard. Sometimes finding the right question takes months, or years.

I like to call this "massaging the requirement". Massage a bit and it will change. Massage enough and it will go away

Yes! Original idea for Calico came from @liljenstolpe saying "what if, instead of asking how I can make it look to workloads like they are all connected to the same ethernet switch, I instead asked how I could get IP connectivity to each workload?"

There's always a better question.

I am officially stealing that...with credit.

A famous aphorism of David Wheeler goes "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"

Aaaand the other way around as well: from product side you also need to ask the right question from engineers to have the right insights into your feature delivery.

Setting up the right questions is more than half of the work. If you can formulate properly what the question is, it usually resolves itself within hours and minutes rather than years and months

Well put!