Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them
summary
Shows a clear claim and concrete tools: Tesla shifts the problem from tailpipe pollution to sustainable energy, cuts exhaust and regenerative braking drastically reduces pad wear and is 11× less likely to catch fire; Remix removes several web-app pains with nested routing, server-side loaders that eliminate many useEffect patterns and reduce the need for React Query, predictable per-route CSS via link tags, and simple mutations where forms work without JavaScript so core failures and maintenance vanish.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:26Problem Tree
- 4:01You are a Problem Solver
- 6:31Problem Avoidance
- 13:40Software
- 16:40Remix
- 17:34Nested Routing
- 18:31ClientServer Interaction
- 19:48Web APIs
- 20:59Mutations
- 22:16CSS
- 25:44Problem Elimination
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