Apparently I’m not alone in my bionic-brownie love of simplicity.
I got a great tipoff to the very lovable and wacky Global Nerdy blog, which not only gave my brain a Friday afternoon stretch, but also featured Laws of Software Development, which is a lot more fun than it sounds.
Apparently William of Ockham coined a law called Occam’s Razor, which states “The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct”. See, men with far greater titles than I have walked this path before, and you can be sure I’ll be name-dropping Bill in all my future simplicity discussions with clients.
It’s worth a scroll through just to see if you correctly understand the well known ones, like The Pareto Principle, Murphy’s Law, The Peter Principle and my personal day-to-day favourite, Parkinson’s Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion). There’s also some fun new ones to be learned, like Lister’s Law (people under time pressure don’t think faster) and Hoare’s Law of Large Programs (inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out).
Pic: Yin Yang Melaka by CreativeSpark
