Simple
Humans have a bias towards complexity.
If something seems easy, our spider senses tingle and our caveman brain goes on high alert.
Simple things are maligned. Most people conflate simple with simplistic.This couldn’t be further from the truth.
My favorite definition of simplicity is this: to reduce something until any further reduction would fundamentally change it.
It’s a stripping away of artifice, a reduction to the essence of something.
When Michelangelo was asked how he sculpted David, he said it was simple: he merely removed everything that didn’t look like David.
Making things simple is hard.
Like a block of marble, you start with something ambiguous and try to get down to something self-evident.
Simplicity feels unnatural to us, but it sits at the core of every organic system.