== A paradox of ignorance

Something that's recently struck me:

> Ignorance often makes it easier to do things, because you don't know
> enough to become paralyzed with indecision.

If I'd known what I now know about bicycles when I bought [[my bike
Biking/Photos]], I might never got it. Back then I just went to a local
bike shop a co-worker liked with the determination to stop delaying and
get a bike that was neither too cheap nor too expensive. These days I
would probably be trying to make up my mind about various bits of gear
and what was best and how much I was willing to spend on what and so on.

It pops up a lot in computers, too. For example, now that I've heard
about 6-bit versus 8-bit LCD colour issues and TN panels versus VA and
IPS panels and a bunch of the complexity lurking under the surface, I
am filled with a moderately vast uncertainty over future LCD panels, as
opposed to the blithe confidence I had back when I said 'Dell 1907FPs,
they seem good to me'.

(I suppose that this is a facet of [[The Paradox of Choice
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/books.html]], which I must
have read about at some point in the past few years.)