"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

Name: "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
Duration: 1 h 1 min 38 s

Rich Hickey · 1h 01m · youtube.com ↗

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0:17:27 · watch on youtube.com↗

Our reading
Choosing what is easy over what is simple buys speed only at the start, the way only a runner in a very short race can sprint from the gun.

Their wordsSo, what kind of runner uh can run as fast as they possibly can from the very start of a race? Right. Only somebody who runs really short races.
41 min later
0:58:13 · watch on youtube.com↗

Our reading
Simplicity is a choice, and a system that is not simple is its builders' fault.

Their wordsThe bottom line is simplicity is a choice. It's your fault if you don't have a simple system.
1 min later
0:58:55 · watch on youtube.com↗

Our reading
Simple and easy are different things, and treating simplicity as ease of use is a mistake.

Their wordsYour sensibilities about simplicity being equal to ease of use are wrong. They're just simply wrong. Right? We saw the definitions of simple and easy. They're completely different things. Right? So, easy is not simple.
1 min later
0:59:42 · watch on youtube.com↗

Our reading
Tests and type checkers are safety nets: they do not make a system simple, so they cannot touch the core problem of understanding it.

Their wordsRight? They just do not touch the core of this problem. Right? They're safety nets, but they're nothing more than that.
1 min later
1:00:36 · watch on youtube.com↗

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

Their wordsAnd recognize that when you simplify things, you often end up with more things. Right? Simplicity is not about counting.