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el·e·ga·tion: being highly effective, yet simple  
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June 15, 2009

In Pursuit of Elegance [book]

I read In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew E. May last week while on Vacation.


It started slow, but the ideas captured my attention, and the theme came together nicely by the final chapter.  I continue to see the concepts throughout my daily life, including symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability.


Intelligent Traffic Design

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July 12, 2008

DB's Medical Rants

I rediscovered DB's Medical Rants, a medical blog.

His posts seem more relevant to me at this this time in my training.

One quote on his sidebar stuck out to me specifically:

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus

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June 30, 2008

Less is More: Stan Shroeder

From a link I found via Jay Parkinson's blog,


Stan Shroeder writes what at first thought appears to be this year's Web 2.0 article:

"...a new paradigm has arisen. Less is more. Simplicity is power. Create a solid foundation, and let others build a thousand different houses, each catering to a different need, and you'll never go out of fashion. Simplicity is the key that unlocks the web... "

Read the whole thing, it crystallizes in my mind why google, twitter, and one could extrapolate the iPhone are so appealing.

Filed under  //   google   iphone   jay parkinson   simplicity   stan shroeder   twitter  

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