simplicity
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simplicity
The easiest thing is the hardest. It is harder to be simple than it is to be complex.
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The Rise of ``Worse is Better''
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“Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams
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INTERVIEWER: As your experience about writing accrues, what would you say increases with knowledge?
BALDWIN: You learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of... See more
BALDWIN: You learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of... See more
Cynthia Haven • James Baldwin: “You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”
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
... See moreBreaking through to a better idea by subtraction, rather than addition, is the most satisfying kind of breakthrough.
-Jason Fried