simplicity over complexity
- complexity is a drug - and youâre probably addicted
- makes you feel smart, like master engineer spinning golden webs of logic
- but no one cares about your clever complexity
- complexity isnât a flex - itâs a failure
- wasted time, wasted brainpower, wasted lives fixing your over-engineered mess later
- simplicity? thatâs the real boss move
- not easy, but worth it
- apply system thinking to see which complexity is essential and which is ego
âlife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.â - confucius
why people complicate
- most people complicate because they donât have guts to simplify
- simple puts you on the hook
- simple forces you to strip away nonsense and ask: what actually matters here?
- easier to hide behind complexity than face truth: your system is bloated garbage
the pattern of failure
- engineers stack layers of abstractions and call it âscalableâ
- devs add million features and call it ârobustâ
- itâs not robust - itâs a dumpster fire waiting to happen
the cure
- iâve cured friends from this disease
- told them: use your same brain, but flip it
- instead of building labyrinths, challenge yourself to make it so simple a drunk intern could figure it out
- best engineers donât build complexity - they destroy it
- once they embraced that mindset, they killed it
- their work wasnât just better - it was untouchable
- they learned to write good code that others actually want to use
âsimplicity is often harder than complexity. but once you get there, you can move mountains.â - steve jobs
stop hiding
- stop hiding behind excuses
- stop pretending your complexity is genius - itâs not
- genius is doing less, better
- if your codebase looks like pile of spaghetti, youâre not genius
- youâre just another person addicted to chaos
the test
- next time youâre about to over-engineer something, stop
- ask yourself: am i solving a problem or stroking my ego?
- no oneâs impressed with how clever you are if it takes 15 steps to fix a bug
- simplicity wins because simplicity works
- get on board or get out of the way