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Simplifying often leaves you with more things, not fewer: simplicity is about not tangling things together, not about counting them.

Drawn from what Rich Hickey said

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simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

Conservation of complexity

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Complexity is conserved: someone has to carry it, and it should not be the user Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Less is not the goal: the aim is clarity, and cutting too far loses what mattered

What Rich Hickey actually said

  1. Rich Hickey Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic
    And recognize that when you simplify things, you often end up with more things. Right? Simplicity is not about counting.

    Watch from 1:00:36 plays here

    ↗"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)youtube.com

    c. 2011 · video · 1h 01m · spoken · machine transcript

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