This post is my ongoing daily participation in @jongolson's fantastic Index4Index Initiative. Read his post, and get yourself involved!
Today's Index4Index Daily Inspired Motivation is about simplicity being an essential component of reliability. This one is probably a no-brainer. The fewer parts and interactions, the more consistent something will be. Period.
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
-Edsger W. Dijkstra
I've so deeply come to apreciate the elegance of simplicity over the years. The more complex something is, whether it's an operating system or a business operation, the more prone it will be to something going awry, and throwing a wrench in reliability. With increasing complexity comes more numerous points of failure, which then adds to the challenge of trouble shooting what went wrong.
One of the guiding principles of my favorite operating system in the world, Arch Linux, is simplicity.
"Arch Linux defines simplicity as without unnecessary additions or modifications."
This has resulted in a technologically elegant, fast, efficient, flexible, and always-up-to-date operating system that is a joy with which to work or play. To me, nothing else compares!
How does simplicity relate to business and entrepreneurial success? If we keep what we're doing simple, clear, and focused, I can guarantee you that even our success will be far more reliable than if we allowed ourselves to get mired in the tangle of unneeded complexity.
As we are planning and implementing something important, if we can make some aspect of it simpler, it would behoove us to do so. Our future self will indeed thank us! Clarify, simplify, and focus!
Remember, dear friends, that we are all in this together, that we rise by lifting others, and that together we thrive, so onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙