I also like the way it changes how you look at the world a little bit, in a ‘life has a surprising amount of detail’, ‘abstractions are leaky’ kind of way. To go from a model of locks that’s just “you cannot open this without the right key”, to seeing how and why and when that model doesn’t work, can be interesting. Other problems in life sometimes have this property, where you’ve made a simplifying assumption about what can’t be done, and actually if you look more closely that thing in fact can sometimes be done, and doing it would solve the problem.
I also like the way it changes how you look at the world a little bit, in a ‘life has a surprising amount of detail’, ‘abstractions are leaky’ kind of way. To go from a model of locks that’s just “you cannot open this without the right key”, to seeing how and why and when that model doesn’t work, can be interesting. Other problems in life sometimes have this property, where you’ve made a simplifying assumption about what can’t be done, and actually if you look more closely that thing in fact can sometimes be done, and doing it would solve the problem.