“Sensei Hickey would say, ‘Think of four strands of yarn that hang independently—that’s a simple system. Now take those same four strands of yarn and braid them together. Now you’ve complected them.’ Both configurations of yarn could fulfill the same engineering goal, but one is dramatically easier to change than the other. In the simple system, you can change one string independently without having to touch the others. Which is very good.” Erik laughs, “However, in the complected system, when you want to make a change to one strand of yarn, you are forced to change the other three strands
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