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Beware the Complexity Merchants
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
“Complexity kills,” Lotus Notes creator and Microsoft veteran Ray Ozzie famously wrote in a 2005 internal memo. The challenge is that when a group of smart engineers are gathered, it can often be a difficult exercise of discipline to keep them from reaching for complexity of the accidental kind to get their highs. So a word of warning to you, dear traveler: beware of the complexity merchants as you endeavor to create value and seek to gain velocity towards whatever your destination shall be.
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