The Story of Fastify and Vue, by @anothergalvez.bsky.social:
“He needs stability inside and out, and to simplify his life lest it overwhelm him. There are people like him (so he says) who complicate their inner lives by feeling too much all at once, by living in knots, and who therefore need outer things to be simple. A house, a field, some sheep for example. And there are those who manage somehow, by some miracle of being, to simplify their inner lives so that outer things can be ambitious and limitless. Those people can swap out a house for a spaceship, a field for a universe.” - Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
"Simply This" teableau for 04/24/25
In a world gone mad, I have to start my day with some grace, however small.
An example of what I see as smart typography to visually represent the meanings of words. Stylized visual letter play that, despite all its simplicity, is still excellent typographic art, where the design reinforces or reflects the meaning of the word.
Let’s categorize humans into two main groups: those who are human and those who act like humans but aren’t. That’s all there is to it. We don’t need to break it down further; it’s unnecessary.
I don't need to run openBSD on anything, but damn if that UX doesn't scratch an itch for me currently....
I love when programming handbooks start with quotes like this:
"Creativity is more than just being different...
Anybody can play weird — that's easy.
What's hard is to be as simple as Bach.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace...
Making the complicated simple
— awesomely simple;
That"s creativity."
— Charles Mingus, jazz musician (1922-1979)
(Source: The MacFORTH handbook, 1984 — https://bitsavers.org/pdf/creativeSolutions/MacFORTH_1.2_Oct84.pdf)
Micro-Scrum, by @j9t [@frontenddogma.com]:
"Decision fatigue? Simplicity overcomes complexity every time" - Futurist Jim Carroll
A shoutout to Christa Haberstock for giving me the idea!
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Each month, I do an email blast to the various speaker bureau folks who have booked me through the years - about 260 people at this point,.
With that being the case, I've come to keep my message - a key way of keeping them up to date - shorter and to the point..
Here's what I sent yesterday. It speaks for itself with powerful guidance that can apply to just about anything.
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Decision fatigue is real. Breaking through is what matters!
Let's talk about why clients can't make up their minds in 2025!
Noticed clients taking forever to pick speakers lately? It's not you - it's decision fatigue!
I remember seeing a post somewhere on LinkedIn recently that something like 1.5 million people have either 'speaker' or 'keynote speaker' in their profile - no wonder clients are feeling overwhelmed.
This is making it difficult for them to select a speaker - and this is combined with the decision fatigue they are already facing.
Decision Fatigue? What's that?
In my 30+ years of speaking about leadership and innovation, I've often shared insights with audiences about the issues people have with making decisions. Here's what I know - simply put, our brains get tired after making too many choices. Each decision uses mental energy, and eventually, we run out of gas. When we run out of gas, we do the easiest thing possible - we stop making decisions.
Recent studies highlight just how real this problem is:
One study suggests we spend 50% of our working day making decisions
- We make 100+ significant decisions daily, plus thousands of micro-choices (emails, word choices, etc.)
- Decision quality drops by up to 40% after making multiple back-to-back decisions
- 73% of professionals report postponing important decisions due to mental fatigue
I've also noticed that decision paralysis becomes significantly worse during periods of volatility.
Back in 2002, I identified what was happening in the meetings and events industry as what I called "aggressive indecision" - people simply refusing to commit to anything due to overwhelming uncertainty.
I think that's where we are at right now.
By the time they're looking at your speaker options, they've already made too many decisions that day. Their brain is basically saying, "Not another choice!"
No wonder they ghost you after initially seeming excited!
They make the decision easy by deferring it, avoiding it, and not thinking about it.
Here's how to make it easier for mentally drained clients - make it easy for them to make decisions.
#Decision #Fatigue #Simplicity #Choices #Focus #Clarity #Overwhelm #Efficiency #Leadership #Action
The original #LISP had 7 primitives: \(\texttt{cons}\), \(\texttt{car,}\) \(\texttt{cdr}\), \(\texttt{atom}\), \(\texttt{quote}\), \(\texttt{eq}\), and \(\texttt{cond}\). And the original #Smalltalk syntax could fit on a 5×7 card. That meant a novice could learn the syntax in a matter of minutes, and direct all his efforts to learning how properly to wield the power of that Turing-complete language. This was why, in the 1970s and the 1980s, many college freshmen were taught FP in Scheme (a more modern LISP) and many middle school children were taught OO in Smalltalk. These were surely the best "first" #programming languages.
#FORTRAN and #BASIC were simple, too. FORTRAN, the first high-level language, has been in continuous use since the late 1950s by engineers, who are not keyboard warriors. BASIC was invented in the early 1960s for teaching programming to non-STEM students at Dartmouth. It sired a whole generation of self-taught children in the 1980s.
Compare those to C++, Erlang, Python, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, and pretty much every language in popular use today. Most consider Python and JavaScript to be the simplest of modern languages. Yet, they are massive, complex languages. No 10-year-old could teach himself those, nor should he.
The original versions of those classic languages cannot be used to solve modern problems. But they should still be taught to youngsters as their first language. Throwing in the kids' faces a modern enterprise language confuses them and discourages them. Consequently, many novices never attain that state of flow, when the joy of programming gushes forth.
#Simplicity is a virtue. Self-motivated learning is virtuous.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
#Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredNorthWhitehead #Simplicity
#Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
Perky Sue
Johns Canyon Road, UT
Stumbled across this older photo and found it very pleasing to my eye. I hope you find it so, as well.