Tradeoffs are central to understanding design. It’s inevitable in any pursuit that some goals you want to achieve are in tension with others. You might start a project desiring high quality and low cost, but eventually you’ll have to decide to choose one over the other (for example, your neural-Matrix interface may turn out to require a unique, expensive part). At the beginning of projects, when both optimism and ignorance are in abundance, it’s easy not to notice tradeoffs that will need to be made. Sometimes you can find an elegant solution that dances its way around them, but often the best
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