How We Solve Things: The Problem-Solving Hierarchy

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How We Solve Things: The Problem-Solving Hierarchy

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The perfect illustration of problem-solving across disciplines! Citizens are like "let's just connect the dots with 5 simple lines and call it a day." Scientists take it a step further with 4 lines but make it all fancy with those intersecting diagonals because... SCIENCE! But engineers? They're playing 4D chess with reality! Three parallel lines that somehow extend into infinity because why solve a problem normally when you can bend spacetime? It's like watching evolution of problem-solving in real-time - from "good enough" to "mathematically elegant" to "I'll literally warp physics to make this work with fewer resources." Next time your engineer friend "optimizes" something simple into an eldritch horror of efficiency, you'll know why!

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