The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda's book, The Laws of Simplicity, proposes ten laws for simplifying complex systems in business and life. Think of it as simplicity 101.
Law of triviality
The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.[1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.
The Complexity of Simplicity
The Complexity of Simplicity
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
Notion encourages busy-work and I’m tired of it
Why has everything become so needlessly complicated?
Simple living
Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle. Common practices of simple living include reducing the number of possessions one owns, depending less on technology and services, and spending less money. In addition to such external changes, simple living also reflects a person's mindset and values. Simple living practices can be seen in history, religion, art, and economics.
Small Programming Tricks
A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.
I don't want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
Simply Jekyll
A non-linear thread of important ideas weaved together to explore and understand the fabric of knowledge.
Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
Sometimes deliberate roadblocks can be a good thing to get more efficient and effective products and workflow. Here's how.
The Facebook Method of Dealing With Complexity
Computers used to be weak, so we had to make their world simple. Now they can handle endless complexity, but we need to learn how to make the world simple
How To Think Real Good | Meta-rationality
Practical epistemology: heuristics for how to think about difficult things, particularly using formal methods.
4 Rules for Intuitive UX
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
100 Little Ideas
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…