There is a profound, and enduring beauty in simplicity

American Flag on homeowner's house
The flag went up for Independence Day 2001 (3 months before of 9/11)  and has remained everyday since

 

There is a profound, and enduring beauty in simplicity. In harmony. In seasonality.

In clarity.

In efficiency.

And ultimately, effectiveness.

Design is so much more than the way something looks. It’s how the whole thing works. And ultimately, design defines our experience.

What if we saw our life as something to be designed?

Something that wasn’t on the surface as much as what it was at the core.

About bringing order to our complexity.

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Is simplicity the wonder drug for organizational culture?

Mid Life Celebration tagline and logo
Simple?

 

CEO of YouSendIt, Brad Garlinghouse, snippets from an interview Adam Bryant (NYT weekend Biz section and author, The Corner Office) did recently. Recently received the condensed and edited interview notes, and then edited it some more:

  • be in (passionate)
  • be real (authentic)
  • be bold (innovative)

Added italicized personal interpretation.

What Brad did apparently, was to make them the corporate values. Simplicity is power.

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Are nuance and subtlety the overlooked keys to success?

Picture of a man with extremely long hair from 15 years of growth
The last time he cut his hair was 15 years ago – there is neither subtlety, nuance, nor simplicity

 

Are nuance and subtlety the overlooked keys to success? Seth Godin even goes as far as to say simplicity may be wrongly replacing nuance. Interesting.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

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