> Reality Has A Surprising Amount Of Detail

Every time we make progress complexity increases and it becomes more difficult to make progress. I'm not sure why this is surprising to many. We always do things to "good enough", not to perfection. Not that perfection even exists... "Good enough" means we tabled some things and triaged, addressing the most important things. But now to improve those little things now need to be addressed.

This repeats over and over. There are no big problems, there are only a bunch of little problems that accumulate. As engineers, scientists, researchers, etc our literal job is to break down problems into many smaller problems and then solve them one at a time. And again, we only solve them to the good enough level, as perfection doesn't exist. The problems we solve never were a single problem, but many many smaller ones.

I think the problem is we want to avoid depth. It's difficult! It's frustrating. It would be great if depth were never needed. But everything is simple until you actually have to deal with it.