Simple Scales, Fancy Fails
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This is a saying that has stuck with me for a while now. I don’t remember when I heard it first. It is an excellent reminder. I tend to overthink, overplan, overanalyze, and overdo many things in my life. There is a sense of perfection. It really has to be all prepared. Every detail has to look seamless. It should look cool. For it just to work is not good enough. Since hearing “Fancy Fails, Simple Scales” I keep reminding myself of that. We always keep thinking of things to add. We barely take a pause and ask ourselves: Is there something we can cut? Can we make it more simple? Is less going to take us there as well? This is what we should ask ourselves. We can do so many different things, but how many can we actually get done? We love ideas over ideas, but in reality – we can’t do them all. So how can we make it simple for us and our clients? It is funny to me – how we build so complex systems that we have trouble finding papers and documents on our Notion or Laptop. We don’t even want to think about the moment when something breaks down. It would be so challenging. Because we didn’t build it simple enough. There are two sides to the fancy coin. One side is the pretty side. We try to make it look pretty and therefore end up too complex and fancy. The other side is the lazy side. When we’re too lazy, we don’t understand it in depth. So we don’t control the move. Which means we have a vague, complex, fancy thing at the end. Just think of Fancy Fails. Simple Scales. Next time around. Your Jowi |
