Merge pull request #9 from dwmkerr/feat/teslers-law

feat: added tesler's law

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 * [The Laws](#the-laws)
     * [⭐⭐ Conway's Law](#-conways-law)
     * [⭐ Hofstadter's Law](#-hofstadters-law)
+    * [⭐⭐ The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tessler's Law)](#-the-law-of-conservation-of-complexity-tesslers-law)
     * [⭐⭐⭐ The Unix Philosophy](#-the-unix-philosophy)
     * [⭐The Spotify Model](#the-spotify-model)
 
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 You might hear this law referred to when looking at estimates for how long something will take. It seems a truism in software development that we tend to not be very good at accurately estimating how long something will take to deliver.
 
+### ⭐⭐ The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tessler's Law)
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+[The Law of Conservation of Complexity on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_conservation_of_complexity)
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+This law states that there is a certain amount of complexity in a system which cannot be reduced.
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+Some complexity in a system is 'inadvertent'. It is a consequence of poor structure, mistakes, or just bad modeling of a problem to solve. Inadvertent complexity can be reduced (or eliminated). However, some complexity is 'intrinsic' - is is a consequence of the complexity inherent in the problem being solved. This complexity can be moved, but not eliminated.
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+One interesting element to this law is the suggestion that even by simplifying the entire system, the intrinsic complexity is not reduced, it is _moved to the user_, who must behave in a more complex way.
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 ### ⭐⭐⭐ The Unix Philosophy
 
 [The Unix Philosophy on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy)