Simplicity

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Simplicity is the idea that less is more. That by trimming something down to the core we can get a much more refined, understandable and implementable idea medium independent.

Simplicity is important because often the greatest barrier for communication and action is Friction. If something is difficult to use or understand, than even if it's the greatest idea in the world, no one would ever use it. A genius's brilliance is not in doing things that nobody understands, it's the opposite, it's by translating smart ideas into something everyone can understand Mental Shortcuts. This is also true in it's reverse, like the Feynman Technique that says that if you can't explain it to others (in a simple way) that you don't understand it well enough. For example,

Simplicity is the answer to Complexity. It's not a mirror image of it, rather the mitigation for it. The more complex something is, the more we need to think about how to simplify it, like how check-lists were used to avoid errors in complicated flight scenarios.

Simple is elegant, is beautiful, but most of all it is Flexible. The easier something is, the more it's robust to changes, and can be used in various situations.

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