Continuing the discussion from Visible and Hidden Problems:
I liked this article. I thought the iceberg analogy was good. I made a short summary of this article in Supernotes
Visible And Hidden Problems
Some problems are easy to see and some are harder.
- E.g. not having money is a problem that’s easy to see. Not having money because you were mostly unemployed due to disliking jobs is easy to see. Why you dislike jobs can be harder to see and have various causes (e.g. laziness).
- One can go around focusing on the most visible problems but that leaves the more hidden problems untouched while getting rid of the part of the problem that you could actually see (like cutting off the tip of an iceberg while leaving the rest untouched).
- Instead of solving problems one by one, one should instead look for related problems & try to understand root causes. If one can solve ten problems at once, that’s better and will probably solve some other problems you didn’t even see.