simplicity

“Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.” From The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

“The best approach in over-communicated society is the oversimplified message.” — Al Ries

One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*

Smaller and simpler software with one core feature always makes me more focused. Every time I want to write something I open a simple text editor instead of something more complex like Notion or Google Docs. Feature bloat creates so much distraction and friction for me, to the point where I just sit and stare at the screen instead of actually doing

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