Sometimes I make things more difficult than I need to. I know this is the case with other people too. We just have come to expect things to be hard so we make them even harder than they need to be sometimes.
For example. Today I was trying to match a literal % character in an expression within vim. For some reason I thought it needed to be escaped with a \ or even multiple \\. When in reality it is just matched wthout any escaping. I was making it more difficult than it needed to be. This is a simple case, but it happens many times each week. I would imagine if most technical types kept track of how often they do this it would be more often than they expect.
I’m going to start making an effort to try to find a simple solution before looking for a more complex one.
