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The Excel Enlightenment Paradox

The Excel Enlightenment Paradox
The bell curve of intelligence strikes again! On both ends of the IQ spectrum (the 0.1% geniuses), we have pragmatic folks who simply use Excel to solve business problems. Meanwhile, the average developer (the 68% in the middle) is frantically panicking about building custom applications with a bazillion programming languages and frameworks. It's the classic "overthinking tech solutions" syndrome. The truly brilliant minds understand that sometimes the best tool is the one Karen from accounting already knows how to use. Why spend 6 months developing a custom app when a spreadsheet with some macros will do the trick? The irony is delicious - developers surrounded by JS, Python, Java, and dozens of frameworks, yet Excel has been quietly solving business problems since 1985. Sometimes the real 200 IQ move is knowing when not to code.

The Type System Horseshoe Theory

The Type System Horseshoe Theory
Ah, the classic IQ bell curve meme but with programming languages! The folks with average IQ (the middle hump) are obsessing over Rust's algebraic Hindley-Milner type system that's "statically verified at compile time!!!!" Meanwhile, both the low and high IQ programmers (the tails) have reached the same enlightened conclusion: "Types aren't even real." JavaScript and Assembly sitting at opposite ends but somehow agreeing is peak programming wisdom. After 15 years of debugging type errors, you eventually realize it's all just ones and zeros anyway. Why are we fighting over type systems when we could be fighting over tabs vs spaces like civilized people?

The OS Intelligence Horseshoe Theory

The OS Intelligence Horseshoe Theory
The great OS debate, visualized as an IQ bell curve. On the left side, we've got the "I need Linux for programming" crowd—the beginners who think installing Ubuntu makes them elite hackers. In the middle, at the peak of intelligence, are the pragmatists who just want an OS that helps them ship code without fighting their tools. Then on the right, we loop back to "I need Linux for programming" again—but this time it's the bearded terminal wizards who've customized their Arch install to the point where only they can use it. After 15 years in this industry, I've learned the hard truth: the best OS is whichever one lets you focus on solving actual problems instead of configuring your damn package manager. But we'll all keep having this fight until the heat death of the universe anyway.