simplify – two minute tactics

(reading time 91 seconds, writing time 27 minutes)

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed

Ralph Waldo Emerson

we’re always trying to add more complexities, add new features, make it bigger and better™

instead: choose to simplify. more and bigger breeds complexity, and complexity is fragile.

ABR: always be reducing. most things will die over the next ten years. so you win by staying alive. you stay alive by making things robust, and you make things robust by removing things. always be reducing.

task: sit down, right now and write down what you need to remove: what features are not important, what dependencies are too many, what people are in the wrong seats. make a list and then clean something today

as promised, two minutes, see you next time!