Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more process, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly. Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines our style and the vestigial burdens we carry.
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