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+1 here for "breaking down many-step problems into their smallest element".

If you can do this, then the technology to solve each element is much easier to determine, and it'll also be easier to ask (Google, ChatGPT, coworkers) more specific questions that provide more specific answers.


According to Gall's law, breaking things down to simple elements is not only the best way, but the only way.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."

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