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+1 I think people get carried away by complexity sometimes and forget that building a business can just mean solving a problem better than anyone else and tell

• fleitz 14y ago
  Or just being closer. Mc Donalds isn't really better than very many places but it's consistent and it's likely nearby. Complexity is the enemy, I eschew it, when I find something really smart and complicated in my codebase (even stuff that I wrote), I rip it out and replace it with something simple. The M-16 is a completely superior weapon system in almost every regard to an AK-47, except one, you can throw an AK-47 in the mud pick it up and shoot it. It passes the good enough bar and it works. Complex systems are brittle, it's sort of the Buffet theory, find a business so simple even an idiot could run it.
  • pm90 14y ago
    I loved your example comparing the two guns. Just saying