Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike
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Think of the experiment with the 5 monkeys, the problem is we as experts in a field are afflicted with scores of preconditionings.
I know I've spent days perfecting a certain programming paradigm, be it function composition or object orientated design, only to realise that I've lost sight of the overall problem domain and therefore how best to tackle it.