Law 2D: If questioning between several possibilities, there may be a higher principle you are missing - page 1

Dig deeply into the choices (dialectic) until the higher principle emerges (synthesis), which then makes the choice unnecessary or obvious.

"When you first attack a problem it seems really simple because you don't understand it. Then when you start to really understand it, you come up with these very complicated solutions because it's really hairy. Most people stop there.

"But a few people keep burning the midnight oil and finally understand the underlying principles of the problem and come up with an elegantly simple solution for it. But very few people go the distance to get there."

- Steve Jobs, October 14, 1983 interview published in Byte Vol 9 #2, Feb 1984.

"At the point where you can properly frame the question, the answer is comparatively easy." -- Elon Musk, 01 Oct 2019.