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by sibit 1462 days ago
I was just talking to a friend about a similar mental model. The way I see it a task falls into one of three buckets: easy problems, hard problems, and stupid problems.

Easy problems are "hard work" and hard problems are an exact match for "difficult problems". Stupid problems are just difficult problems that are only being implemented because the business (marketing, sales, C Suite) and development teams suck at communicating.