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**Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)**
The author's father immigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18, seeking better opportunities. This led to the author and his brother spending significant time assisting with their father's construction work, primarily on properties they owned. This experience, involving tasks like fence replacement, trench digging, and building sheds and flooring, instilled in the author an appreciation for the unexpected level of detail inherent in seemingly simple tasks.
The author uses the example of building basement stairs to illustrate this point. While stairs appear straightforward at first glance, requiring only a few basic components, the actual construction involves numerous intricate details and considerations not immediately apparent. This observation is then connected to the tendency of even highly skilled individuals to become intellectually stagnant, suggesting that overlooking the complexities within a given problem, due to focusing only on its high-level aspects, can hinder progress and understanding. The surprising amount of detail in reality hinders intellectual growth.
[Read More](http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail)
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The author's father immigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18, seeking better opportunities. This led to the author and his brother spending significant time assisting with their father's construction work, primarily on properties they owned. This experience, involving tasks like fence replacement, trench digging, and building sheds and flooring, instilled in the author an appreciation for the unexpected level of detail inherent in seemingly simple tasks.
The author uses the example of building basement stairs to illustrate this point. While stairs appear straightforward at first glance, requiring only a few basic components, the actual construction involves numerous intricate details and considerations not immediately apparent. This observation is then connected to the tendency of even highly skilled individuals to become intellectually stagnant, suggesting that overlooking the complexities within a given problem, due to focusing only on its high-level aspects, can hinder progress and understanding. The surprising amount of detail in reality hinders intellectual growth.
[Read More](http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail)
💬 [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087779) (171)