Dear Log,
From Eno's diary (1995-02-14): "Must be the central problem of politics -- do you paint simplistic pictures that make people act (and leave them with too simple a view of the world) or do you paint bafflingly shaded and contingent scenes that leave people paralyzed by indecision?"
That's also the central problem in writing a specification for something (POD, say!). The solution is to get off that axis altogether, and allow the interface (whether it's a POD parser's interface, or the mechanical interface on a stove) that makes clear what information and decisions are currently necessary, but doesn't require the user to face much more than that.
