“Perfect is the enemy of good” is a principle warning against the paralysis of perfectionism. It reminds us that striving endlessly for an ideal can prevent us from achieving what is good, useful, or necessary.

Chesterton’s Fence argues that before you remove or change an existing structure—whether a literal fence, a policy, a tradition, or a rule—you must understand why it was put there in the first place.

Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination in which individual agents—often without communication or awareness of each other—interact through changes they make in a shared environment.