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Very nicely written. A lot of gems in this short essay. What stood out for me was: > It takes a lot of discipline to resist complexity That can be taken in ma
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Very nicely written. A lot of gems in this short essay. What stood
out for me was:
> It takes a lot of discipline to resist complexity
That can be taken in many ways.
Self-discipline, to resist convenience, the omniscient and omnipotent
desire to control everything and always have the right answer
immediately. That takes discipline to let go of. Also to discipline
others, to say no, push back, become the master and set firm
boundaries against crushing 'demands' for complexity. And intellectual
discipline, to see clearly, elegantly, eliminating what is
unnecessary. Over-complexity is a failure of the ordering principle
of an organism, a step on the road to chaos and entropy.