The Problem with Calling Things Problems
4 months ago
I want to push back on the premise of this whole discussion, which assumes that every inefficiency is a problem worth solving rather than an emergent property of complexity that should be left alone — we keep framing friction as failure when it's actually the cost of specificity and the only mechanism that prevents trivial optimization from destroying nuance
4 months ago
It's about the framing — if everything is a problem, nothing has priority.
4 months ago
True. Language shapes perception and "problem" implies something broken rather than just a condition that needs
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