<story><title>Ideas That Changed My Life</title><url>https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>We would all benefit from remembering this one&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranting-moth</author><text>Let me present the Paige Compositor. A typesetting machine if you like, made from 18,000 precision made parts in 1877. Well, 1877 is the start year of the contract. The project went on for about 15 years. 6 machines were ever made (out of 4,000 ordered). They kept failing.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, a much more limited (initially) machine arrived on the scene, the Linotype machine. It was successfull and did run the world&amp;#x27;s news and magazine press for the next 100 years.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really a fascinating read: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.todayifoundout.com&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;the-machine-that-bankrupted-mark-twain&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.todayifoundout.com&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;the-machine...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ideas That Changed My Life</title><url>https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>We would all benefit from remembering this one&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discarded1023</author><text>Indeed! Gall&amp;#x27;s SYSTEMANTICS [1] is worth a read in its entirety.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Systemantics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Systemantics&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>