People problems are complicated problems
Engineering problems are difficult, but they have a right answer.
People problems, by their nature, are on a spectrum, a distribution of possible forward paths. But they’re complicated. A situation might not fit a person, and vice versa. Add a second person and know you have two people, and two people interacting exponentially increase the number of possibilities.
Knowing this takes the pressure off. Because there isn’t a perfect solution to a people problem. Simply an available path forward that helps us get to the next step.