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This is an admirable and worthy pursuit, but keep in mind that any process you make streamlined:

1. becomes a post from which clever and ambitious people can build complex things. You invent docker to simplify application deployments and then somebody builds a n-dimensional microservice cloud on one side and starts commercializing new hardware architectures on the other. You don't remove the complexity, you just let it move around into new domains. (not a bad thing!)

2. is more temporal than you expect. The "finite and fundamental" problems of yesterday, today, and tomorrow are of different sets -- partly because (1) opens up new problem classes and partly because most problems are inescapably cultural and therefore subject to fashion cycles.



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