Wanna-be Jobs and the Simplicity Trap

Steve Jobs created many things and also destroyed many. One of them is the openness of platforms and another is what I’d call delightful complexity. Simplicity is not always a joy and a lot of overjealous wanna-be-Jobs seem to forget about that.

Achieving simplicity is much harder than achieving complexity but achieving delightful complexity is much much harder than achieving simplicity.

The world is interesting not because it’s on simple or complex extremes but it’s somewhere where I’d call it delightfully complex. We marvel at universe because there is far more to it than just be simple. True design gems are not just simple but delightfully complex.

I guess now I just sound like @naval so I should probably stop.

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