Paul Graham on Twitter: "There's room for better versions of almost everything. We just don't see it because we've stopped noticing the flaws in what we have, and the complicated tricks we use to compensate for them."

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 3 Oct 2020
  Incidentally, this principle applies to a lot more than technology.
  
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1. NoCode Log‏ @nocodelog 3 Oct 2020
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  Words to live by
  
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1. Saad Sahawneh‏ @saadsahawneh 3 Oct 2020
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  Identifying a problem is a problem!
  
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1. troy simpson ‏ @troysimpson 3 Oct 2020
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  My new winter jacket has incredible zippers - the innovation continues!
  
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1. BitcoinGoGo‏ @Hodl_GoGo 3 Oct 2020
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  The only better version of government is less of it.
  
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1. Sean maloney‏ @Seanmaloney0 3 Oct 2020
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  …nay; so long as sentient beings exist, a significant minority has and likely shall in no way ever “stopped noticing the flaws in what we have”
  
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1. Omara‏ @omarakhaddaj 3 Oct 2020
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  We tend to get comfortable with what we already achieved because change is hard and requires getting uncomfortable again.
  
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1. Mike Buzzard‏ @mbuzztweets 3 Oct 2020
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  After about a decade of design thinking proselytization, I think one could conclude the remaining problems often have costly solutions.
  
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1. Prasant Sudhakaran‏ @prasants 3 Oct 2020
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  Hence the need for more Goldovsky Errors - ones that only novices in a field can spot, since they don't know enough for their brains to paper over the cracks.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Goldovsky#%22Goldovsky_Error%22 …
  
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