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The Laws of Simplicity

inky:

Via dailymeh:

1. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
2. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
3. Savings in time feel like simplicity.
4. Knowledge makes everything simpler.
5. Simplicity and complexity need each other.
6. What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
7. More emotions are better than less.
8. In simplicity we trust.
9. Some things can never be made simple.
10. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

John Maeda is stupid. I could sense the bullshit since I first heard about him. His book is all about himself. He’s now president of RISD, and I know some people there, and they all say he’s a phony. 

One of these people met him and told him that he was a student at RISD. He just stared at him and said, “Focus,” and then walked away. WTF?

He has also apparently put up flat screen TVs all around RISD, with pictures of him on them…