At an intuitive level, I think we’ve all encountered this: there are problems that are solvable by throwing a lot of human-hours at it (“Hard Work”), and problems that are not a function of raw work hours, but rather require dealing with ambiguity (“Difficult Problems”). For example, if one could take an ambiguous problem and write a rote list of instructions that would solve the problem, that is effectively collapsing a high dimensional problem space (i.e. a problem space that includes all possible solutions) into a low dimensional space (i.e. “just follow this one path described by the instructions”). This nuance lets you skip the initial discovery phase of a Difficult Problem (e.g.