Why problems are either very easy or very hard
Natural hurdles, human hurdles. Did you notice? It’s quite uncommon to face medium difficulty problems. In your everyday life you are sometimes tasked to solve issues that seem impossible to come to grips with. There are mysteries that seem way bigger than our puny minds. We often get to comment on issues that on the contrary appear quite easy to deal with, and you are left wondering why people are still struggling with them. But you rarely seem to encounter intermediate level problems. How come? Let’s put down some examples (I’ll alienate some readers in the process). Producing a new vaccine requires an excellent research team and years of work, and…
