I like matching patterns to understand things and one keeps coming back to me recently. I was watching this video from a YouTube channel that I have recently discovered and fallen in love with -- The Purist Football -- on the age of football where tactics don't matter anymore. It's almost like instead of first principles that your coaches or the team follows, you want to be going along the derivatives of that. Being able to zoom in and out of problems extremely quickly. The minutiae when you need the details and the bigger picture when you want to recalibrate and reorient.
Positional play is almost like object oriented programming (stay with me here, I promise I'm not waffling). Your rotations are the methods that an object can invoke. And the 10 aka the Pivot, is essentially the God Object you try to avoid in every codebase but end up having anyways for the most part (aka the region in the codebase that everything depends on and has a tendency to be a hot zone for merge conflicts). Then there's relationism, which is more role-based and in my eyes closely resembles functional programming, where you don't really focus on state but rather on permutations, and how you don't mutate but how you evolve temporally. It's the same problem everywhere -- just different inputs to the same function.
An interesting paper about this and on the larger notion of synergies: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40798-020-00256-9.pdf
