Humans are a funny species. We’re not the fastest runners, we’re not the best climbers, we can’t swim too deeply. Our young take years to become anything less than a liability, and many more to become self sufficient.
We are profoundly mediocre at the majority of life’s basic activities.
But we are extremely adaptable.
I contend that any component or system that is to survive, and thrive, for a significant period of time must be inherently adaptable. Given that change is apparently a constant of the universe, any system that doesn’t adapt will naturally degrade and evaporate over a sufficient period of time.
I’m interested to apply this to different areas of life, coming first to software design at different levels of abstraction.