> I lost the drive to endlessly customize my phone.
The way to avoid that is to 'start at the maximum and gradually decrease'. I don't want to endlessly fiddle with everything while not missing out on anything.
> I gladly put into "empathy and philosophy" ones.
Actually, my anticipated answer is that I would use Tool Intelligence to do this well. But as soon as I say that, people will come at me cursing. I'm trying to find something to say in response to that.
> you can't know what you need until you're facing a real problem in a real domain
My point is, many people can't figure out what tools are useful to them even when they have a real problem in front of their eyes.