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Why Simple Is Smart
- Articulating ideas as simply as possible is attractive, not least because getting people to agree with us is attractive. But we have a tendency to overrate ideas that can be shared easily, with the most apparent advantages. By constant simplifying, we may be lulled into abridging our own ideas a little too much, and sooner or later our audience—or ... See more
from Long Distance Thinking by simonsarris.substack.com
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- - complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some p... See morefrom Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins by apxhard
Nick deWilde and added
- The goal is to make the complicated simple — not the other way around. The best ideas are often expressed as simple ideas. They’ll have power because they’ll feel inevitable.
from 101 Design Rules by wearecollins.com
Philip Powis and added