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Simplicity takes hard work to achieve and education to appreciate, and complexity sells better.
Mental modelLess, but better
Their wordsSimplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Their wordsOne can get credit for some complicated concepts one has introduced, it is hard to get credit for the discovery how some established but complicated concepts had better be avoided
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