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Systems for Thoughts in Progress

Clarity is Kindness

On thinking and writing clearly

I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the disco... See more

Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch

Simplex sigillum veri: the naked truth must be so simple and comprehensible that one can impart it to all in its true form without any admixture of myth and fable (a pack of lies)--in other words, without masking it as religion.

Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

What’s more, since data flows that are implemented with pure functions are relatively easy to manage, they largely avoid the need for more complex architecture to manage them. This is the ultimate spirit of Post-Architecture: To use simple, straight-forward tools to solve our problems so that we can not only postpone potentially risky architectural... See more

Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil

Mental Models

Hasan Riaz • 97 cards

Les choses sont toujours plus simples quand on les comprend dans leur ensemble. Ce qui les rend compliquées c’est l’étroitesse de vue qui fait paraître l’accessoire comme déterminant,

Philippe Simiot • Le Banquier et le perroquet (French Edition)

Notice the pattern that I’ve quite deliberately set up in introducing these three programming paradigms: Each of the paradigms removes capabilities from the programmer. None of them adds new capabilities. Each imposes some kind of extra discipline that is negative in its intent. The paradigms tell us what not to do, more than they tell us what to d