Simple is beautiful

i like short things. i am not a big fan of the elaborate and extensive. long articles bore me. long winded people lose my attention. i look for simplicity in things. simple things are beautiful. they are elegant. simple sentences. simple ideas. simple people. the best things, the best ideas, the best people are simple. if i were to have one philosophy in life - perhaps it would be Simplicity.

if a life problem has multiple solutions pick the simple one. it is usually the best one.

if simple is so much better, why complicate things? its human nature to an extent. simple is too easy, and if it is too easy it must not be the best way. complicated is difficult. if we do it the complicated way it gives us a sense of achievement, of hard work, of effort. at the end of it we feel like we put in a lot into it - so it must be the best way. not necessarily. in fact, almost always never.

i like to summarize things. i like to get to the bottom of things. i like to get the gist of things. some say you lose beauty in that. some say you lose the artistic appeal in that. perhaps they are right. perhaps my mind is not one of an artist. perhaps my mind is that of an engineer, a scientist. but perhaps there is art in the succinct. perhaps there is elegance in the summarized. simple is indeed beautiful.