May 2011
21 posts
The Laws of Simplicity
1. Reduce: The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
2. Organize: Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. 3. Time: Savings in time feel like simplicity.
4. Learn. Knowledge makes everything simpler.
5. Differences: Simplicity and complexity need each other.
6. Context: What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
7. Emotion: More emotions are better than less.
8. Trust: In simplicity we trust.
9. Failure: Some things can never be made simple.
10. The One: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
— From John Maeda’s book,The Laws of Simplicity
Charcoal heart of a critic
So, dearest readers, you can see now that I have no soul, and a heavy arsenal of sarcasm at my beck and call. There were parts of “Funeral” that were indeed touching, and I definitely shed several well-earned tears for the death of Jean and the devastating impact it had on Sue. I cheered when the soloists sang, and I cheered when they supported one another. But the bulk of the...
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,...
– The Dalai Lama (via katelynwinterburn)
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That awkward fan moment when you have more in...
ithinkyoullknow:
This is TOTALLY true for me, only with regards to fandom and TV/fictional character crushes.
Twitter-Facebook Brand Re-versioning
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Cinema, both fiction and non-fiction, has shown over and over that as human...
– Robert Redford
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