The usual way to go about developing a method is to ask "How about trying this?" or "How about trying that?" bringing in a variety of techniques one upon the other. This is modern agriculture and it only results in making the farmer busier. My way was opposite. I was aiming at a pleasant, natural way of farming* which results in making the work easier instead of harder. "How about not doing this? How about not doing that?"—that was my way of thinking. I ultimately reached the conclusion that there was no need to plow, no need to apply fertilizer, no need to make compost, no need to use
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Although computing is entirely involved with a conceptual and technical space of man's creation, our own creations and their many interfaces all share the same world and resource constraints. The "do-nothing" mindset can be found in approaches to programming like "no dependency," "single data structure" or even "defaults only." Maybe. This may be pushing the simile too far.
