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+title: 2026-04-06 16:23:54
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+date-created: 2026-04-06T16:23:54-04:00
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+# 2026-04-06 16:23:54
+
+[tksheet](https://pypi.org/project/tksheet/) is a spreadsheet library for tkinter.
+
+It's likely a streamlined `takeoff-calcs.xlsx` clone
+could be made easily with `tksheet`,
+and experimental estimating patterns
+like my graph editor `edger`
+could be added as plugins.
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+title: 2026-04-06 16:47:44
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+date-created: 2026-04-06T16:47:44-04:00
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+weekly: "[[2026-W15]]"
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+quarterly: "[[2026-Q2]]"
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+---
+# 2026-04-06 16:47:44
+
+## Nirvana Fallacy
+
+The [nirvana fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy)
+also called the "perfect solution fallacy"
+is the mistake made when a solution proposed to replace one existing
+is judged against a hypothetical perfect solution
+rather than the solution in current use.
+
+> [!quote] Harold Demsetz "Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint" (1969)[^1]
+> The view that now pervades much public policy economics
+> implicitly presents the relevant choice
+> as between an ideal norm and an existing "imperfect" institutional arrangement.
+> This _nirvana_ approach differs considerably
+> from a _comparative institution_ approach
+> in which the relevant choice is between alternative real institutional arrangements.
+
+[^1]: Harold Demsetz
+    "Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint"
+    _The Journal of Law and Economics_
+    Volume 12, Number 1
+    (April 1969)
+    [doi:10.1086/466657](https://doi.org/10.1086%2F466657)
+
+The "_[[the-failure-of-risk-management#_Exsupero Ursus_|exsupero ursus]]_ fallacy"
+as coined by Douglas Hubbard in [[hubbard_2020_failure]][^2]
+describes the same problem.
+
+[^2]: Or earlier? I can't recall.