It's Too Easy - Part I - Why We Crave Complexity
Oh God! Now he's doing pixel art. I've spent a lot of blog time recently focusing my thoughts on whittling down the complexity of a given solution to get to its core essence. Sounds easy in theory, but it's difficult in practice. We humans, for some reason, are built to worship the byzantine. Part of this is literally due to the makeup of the universe. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (my favorite law of all physical laws) states simply that things tend toward disorder (or, alternately, entropy always increases). In less pretentious terms, imagine your bedroom in its common state - maybe a few clothes strewn around the room, maybe a little dust, maybe an unmade bed. Now imagine letting it sit for 1000 years. No one's allowed to enter it, but otherwise, you're literally letting nature take its course. Now, imagine one of two scenarios: In the first, you walk into the room, and the surfaces are pristine, the clothes are folded and put away, an...
