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“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
(6th March 1475-1564)
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How Does One Apply the KIS Principle Without Dumbing Things Down?
The Keep it simple stupid design principle, used in engineering, counters how complexity sneaks in. A product gets one “small” feature. A process gets one “quick” approval step. A message gets one “tiny” clarification. Soon, nobody remembers what the original plan was, yet everyone feels the drag.
That’s where the KIS principle helps. It was famously championed by Kelly Johnson, the lead…
How Does One Apply the KIS Principle Without Dumbing Things Down?
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
“The decision not to build something is a decision, an important one! Document it accordingly.”
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Claude Code for non-devs, part 1
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For years, we talked about being a T-shaped professional: having a broad base of knowledge with one deep area of expertise.
But with AI, you can multiply your impact in every field where you have enough of a foundation to direct the tools. AI is moving us toward being square-shaped.
This same line of reasoning applies to Claude Code: you do not need to be a professional coder to build a…
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Simplify and romanticize your own life with your strong heart.
Don’t rely on anyone else to do that for you. Beauty may look different for them
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Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better. - Edsger Dijkstra