It's tempting to assume that most hard things are challenging for interesting reasons.
But the vast majority of hard things are challenging for totally mundane reasons.
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- Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use)2026-01-26
- The vast, vast majority of code that exists in the world is junk code.2026-01-19
- The vast majority of consumer software in the past couple of decades has been algorithmically simple.2026-01-06
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