Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1388561641382420480?s=20

Hey friends So a few days ago I tweeted something about like don't solve

problems you should eliminate to problems before you try to solve the

problem. Something like that. And I've been thinking about this quite a bit

recently and probably going to write a blog post maybe even make a talk and

for this concept.

But I just wanted to share with you all while I'm thinking about it and and

there there are lots of examples of where eliminating a problem was much

better than trying to find a solution to the problem. And you can find

these as.Sorts of examples in real life as well as in programming.

So like an example in real life and actually I was watching a video about

this this is what kind of made me start thinking about this was Tesla how

they eliminated a ton of problems with gas-powered vehicles by making an

electric vehicle. And so we no longer have I mean and we kind of create new

categories of problems that we need to solve but by taking a completely

different approach you can eliminate the existing problems.

And so, hopefully the new category of problems that you create.Are not as

bad or easier to solve than the problems that you're eliminating. And

they've got actually lots of really cool innovations that they've done that

have eliminated problems like for example, they have this gigapress thing

that I'm kind of cast a huge part of the the car all at once and so they

don't need to worry about like the dozens of robots and welding and

different stuff like that.

They just eliminated all those problems all together, which I think is

really pretty cool. And in a program,Ming situation, we've got remix has

eliminated a lot of problems by just having nested routes and they

eliminate problems with caching and and a bunch of the the like all of the

abstractions that we build like react query or formic or different things

like that, those problems are eliminated by embracing the fundamental

aspects of the web and just the way that they solve these problems.

I'll have more time to delve into some of these examples and in a blog post

might?Talk but remix is another great example of eliminating problems and

again you do create new problems but hopefully the problems you create are

not as bad or easier to solve. And then finally react hooks eliminated a

bunch of problems with classes.

We have some new problems but they are definitely classes had so many more

problems than hooks, so I'm really glad of this change too. So anyway, I'm

trying to think today of like some things that you use or some problems you

have and see if you can eliminate those and yeah good luck with that.

See you.