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It’s taken me far, far too long to realize this.

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· Jul 8, 2019

Please stop glorifying what's unnecessarily complicated. I've heard countless times people brag about how long it takes people to understand what they work on. In my perfect world, it would be the opposite. You would brag about how quickly people can understand what you wrote.

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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@JeffreyTheobald

Yeah. I think it's understandable to accumulate complicated stuff as a part of the divergent creative process, but ultimately we should be striving to simplify that down into something manageable and easy to communicate once we've learned enough.

12:30 AM · Jul 9, 2019Twitter Web Client

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Something I learned in art/design school was that if you think 'damn, that's so simple, I could have thought of that!' it probably took a looong time to figure out!