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I think only last week I learned that my superpower is being able to solve problems that others find hard with surprisingly simple/compact solutions. I didn't realize how I was able to do this until I connected it to my motto: "What the simplest thing that could possibly work?" That sounds kinda dumb and short-sighted but really it's a corollary to "As simple as possible but not simpler."--if it were simpler than possible it wouldn't work.

After practicing this my entire career, I learned to instinctively find the smallest possible solutions. What this means is that as the problems get larger, I'm dealing with a much smaller solution space than others trying to solve the problem in a larger solution space. The other trick is not to limit the dimensions of your solution space, everything is fair game and 'in play'.



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