ONE!
it is official! the 47th precinct is one year old!
in celebration, I would like to mention ten points from a great little book I just finished. The book is “The Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda, an easy little read of 100 pages, but happily thought provoking and stimulating towards (simply stated) SIMPLICITY!
REDUCE the simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
ORGANIZE organization makes a system of many appear fewer
TIME savings in time feel like simplicity
LEARN knowledge makes everything simpler
DIFFERENCES simplicity and complexity need each other
CONTEXT what lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
EMOTION more emotions are better than less
TRUST in simplicity we trust
THE ONE simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful
Most poignantly for me: Technology and Life only become complex if you let it be so.
{UPDATE: I decided to nix the borrowed sidebar images and to type these out… easier to read and easier to share! learn more about each chapter by reading more at the site itself or buying the book or borrowing mine!}