• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s the Coastline paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

    Other people see just A and B. We start from A and get to B.

    I see immediately that there are at least 5 more steps in between, and each of those can have multiple steps inside them. And until I’ve solved the maze of interconnected issues, I’m not going to start moving towards B because I might get stuck in the middle with an incomplete task.