Walls and Mirrors

Abstraction is a wonderful concept. Like, tell your 'client' just what he needs to know at the level of his understanding. Much as this opens another can of worms of how to determine that level. (After all, what a man does not know can hurt him. And me, in the process.)

I'm all for transparency and being responsible (or kiasi), but oh, the frustration of dealing with people who ask for this and that just because they can be done, when in my not-exactly-professional opinion those are not necessary anyway.

Not to mention I don't have enough nonchalance to just pass on the pressure to the abstraction level above me. Which, still, may or may not work as they would have been trained at handling/repelling this kind of thing, no?

Excuse the ranting. I know I can say this since I am not in their shoes with their worries that might be valid after all -- ugh, this justifying tendency of mine -- but...

Title is a tribute to the first context to introduce this concept to me.