Peter W Williams · Follow 12 min read · -- One of the observations that many a newly minted technical manager has is the following. “ Why is it that the simple problems take so long to be done? Why are the complicated things done so quickly”. Every-one has seen this, complex system level code seems to drop every day, with often multiple commits per shift, everything hums, the team works like a single organism and the result is elegant, performant and wondrously complete.