Simple Actually Is Best
"Simple is best.
" We've heard it a million times.
But what the heck does it mean actually? If you're like me, you've spent most of your time dismissing it by accepting it on the surface while your heart was actually saying: "Yeah, yeah, wouldn't it neat if the world really was simple.
But it's not and I've got tons of work to do and no time to be messing around trying to be simple with all these complications.
" Yet we have to admit simplicity is not just elegant; it's an ideal.
Simple make life easier.
It gives you more breathing space, less clutter and more clarity.
In other words, I'd like to focus on the fact that simplicity greatly boosts productivity, not the other notion- that simple can also sound like something boring.
We want excitement in our lives, don't we? I know I do, though I certainly don't consider myself reckless either.
The point is that simple is not bare bones boring.
Now, I'm a native speaker of English, but I'm also fluent in Japanese.
I say that because I want to explain a situation of gross negligence on the part of a certain company that provides a web service that I need not mention here.
This company, however, through their gross spamming, demandingly long forms, and disjointed information overload, are literally barbaric.
And I use the word deliberately because in the process of doing business, they steal parts of people's lives.
My friend cannot read Japanese, but needed to set up an account with these people, and so he asked me to help.
I'll just cut to the chase and tell you that through all their mismanagement, I ended wasting four hours of my life getting that accomplished when it could have been done in 30 minutes.
Now that time is gone, and I can never get it back.
And yet this is typical, it is the norm.
It's how many of us drudge our way through life.
So simple is best because it is functional.
It makes confusing things clearer, and simplicity helps you to move along quicker and achieve more in this life.
And you only have one life.
I for one suggest keeping that simple.
" We've heard it a million times.
But what the heck does it mean actually? If you're like me, you've spent most of your time dismissing it by accepting it on the surface while your heart was actually saying: "Yeah, yeah, wouldn't it neat if the world really was simple.
But it's not and I've got tons of work to do and no time to be messing around trying to be simple with all these complications.
" Yet we have to admit simplicity is not just elegant; it's an ideal.
Simple make life easier.
It gives you more breathing space, less clutter and more clarity.
In other words, I'd like to focus on the fact that simplicity greatly boosts productivity, not the other notion- that simple can also sound like something boring.
We want excitement in our lives, don't we? I know I do, though I certainly don't consider myself reckless either.
The point is that simple is not bare bones boring.
Now, I'm a native speaker of English, but I'm also fluent in Japanese.
I say that because I want to explain a situation of gross negligence on the part of a certain company that provides a web service that I need not mention here.
This company, however, through their gross spamming, demandingly long forms, and disjointed information overload, are literally barbaric.
And I use the word deliberately because in the process of doing business, they steal parts of people's lives.
My friend cannot read Japanese, but needed to set up an account with these people, and so he asked me to help.
I'll just cut to the chase and tell you that through all their mismanagement, I ended wasting four hours of my life getting that accomplished when it could have been done in 30 minutes.
Now that time is gone, and I can never get it back.
And yet this is typical, it is the norm.
It's how many of us drudge our way through life.
So simple is best because it is functional.
It makes confusing things clearer, and simplicity helps you to move along quicker and achieve more in this life.
And you only have one life.
I for one suggest keeping that simple.
