Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
There&#x27;s something of a connection here to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Two examples come to mind:<p>1. The narrator thinks it&#x27;s important to have in your toolset hammers of multiple hardness, because your hammer should be softer than whatever material you&#x27;re hammering on at the time.<p>At least, that&#x27;s how I remember it; I might well be wrong about -- well, about the DETAILS of that example. Please correct me if I am.<p>2. A student gets and assignment to write an essay about a particular brick wall. He can&#x27;t see how to fill the assigned length with anything interesting.<p>The instructor then says OK, write instead only about the left-topmost brick. The student has so much to say about it he has trouble making his essay SHORT enough to meet the assignment&#x27;s requirements.