Revolution happens when you start by understanding the problem, then find the tools to create a solution.<\/p>\n
Going at it bass-ackwards is a good way to fail. That’s called “Maslow’s Hammer<\/a>” AKA: when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.<\/p>\n That’s not original to Maslow. Over the centuries, variations have been attributed to Buddha, Mark Twain and others.<\/a><\/p>\n Failure happens most frequently when people pick up a familiar tool — hammer, programming language or well-worn algorithm — and try to apply it without understanding the fundamentals of the problem itself.<\/p>\n A workable solution starts with breaking the problem into fundamental elements. Once tractable atoms are identified, they can then be arranged into a prioritized series of logical steps. That’s where an algorithm begins.<\/p>\n Different tools are often needed for each of the steps. Software may be the tool for some of the steps. Hardware, human\/machine interfaces for others.<\/p>\n The object at this stage is to visualize the best tool for each step and not to settle for the familiar “good enough” tool.<\/p>\n The optimum tool must be visualized first.<\/p>\n But visualization cannot proceed without a fundamental understanding of each step of the problem.<\/p>\n If familiar tools fit, that’s fine. But the selection of a familiar tool requires some skepticism and deep introspection on whether the selection decision was an emotional familiarity with the tool, or based an analytic matching of the tool with the<\/p>\n Optimum often needs creativity and invention rather than “make do, good enough” patches. Each “make do” compounds inferiority at every step.<\/p>\n Revolution happens when you start by understanding the problem, then find the tools to create a solution. Going at it bass-ackwards is a good way to fail. That’s called “Maslow’s Hammer” AKA: when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That’s not original …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionalgorithms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A few other links on the topic.<\/h3>\n
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