If you had to describe the direction of improvement from a rotting log to a nice cable stayed bridge, there’s no way you could do it simply. You could name the direction “more better”, but in order to actually point at it or build a bridge, many many design choices will have to be made. In most real world problems, you need to look in many individual directions and decide whether it’s an improvement or not and how far to go. Real world value is built on many “marginal” improvements.
This was an outstandingly useful mental image for me, and one I suspect I will incorporate into a lot of thoughts and explanations. Thanks.
EDIT: finished reading the rest of this, and it’s tied (with Vaniver’s) for my favorite comment on this post (at least as far as the object level is concerned; there are some really good comments about the discussions themselves).
This was an outstandingly useful mental image for me, and one I suspect I will incorporate into a lot of thoughts and explanations. Thanks.
EDIT: finished reading the rest of this, and it’s tied (with Vaniver’s) for my favorite comment on this post (at least as far as the object level is concerned; there are some really good comments about the discussions themselves).