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Rich Hickey • Simple Made Easy
find your conceptual models simplicity is saying no framing is magic consistency compounds chaos is rarely a bad thing change is the only way joy is the real legacy
Lessons of Designlessons.design
How do you know something is as simple as it can be? Think of computer code. Code can sometimes be excessively complex. In trying to simplify it, we would still have to make sure it can perform the functions we need it to. This is one way to understand simplicity. An explanation can be simplified only to the extent that it can still provide an accu
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Simplify it down to its most fundamental components and that's the right way.
The Linear method is a way of expressing that, right? If you're working on a project, it's called a project. That's what it is. And that's it, right? There's no other weird word that we came up with for this.
Jacob Jolibois • "Building Product at Linear" with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear (1/2)
“Beginner = ignorant simplicity
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”
3-2-1: On simplicity, having good ideas, and acting in the face of fear
More generally, I posit the two keys to understanding Web3 are:
1) Beware of easy money schemes
2) Beware of #HollowAbstractions
When proponents like @cdixon promise riches to come via abstract "mental models", we can gently guide them to focus on money flows and use cases.
Here's what I've come to see as the guiding light of my life: simple ideas, explained very clearly. You only really need, like, one or two compelling ideas that you deeply understand. And then you have to be able to make other people understand them, which is the hard part. You have to distill, and in a way distillation is harder than creation. Sim... See more