“Abstractions, at their best, manage the increasing complexity of any system, and may be worth the tradeoff in certain situations. But, at their worst, they add a new layer of cognitive burden you need to cope with, distorting what is actually going on, and imposing the wrong kind of conceptual hiera…”— Matias Ventura, matiasventura.comTagged: Abstractions, Reducing Complexity, Product Development, Trade Offs Of Organization, Organized Systems
“Very often, given our propensity to create early (and misguided) abstractions, they solidify practices and force certain meanings that sometimes are best kept loose.”— Matias Ventura, matiasventura.comTagged: Abstractions, Our Need To Simplify, Trying to Tame Complexity