Tech Leaderism

Simplicity as a Goal

In 1945, Picasso created a series of lithographs where a fully detailed bull gradually became a single continuous line. What looks like simplification is actually clarity. Removing everything that doesn't define the idea.

Leonardo da Vinci anticipated this mindset with his belief that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication".

Steve Jobs turned that philosophy into Apple's product strategy. For him, simplicity wasn't minimalism but intention. Refining again and again until the purpose becomes obvious and the noise disappears.

These three examples point to the same lesson: simplicity is not the starting point, it is the outcome of disciplined reduction.

In technology we tend to move in the opposite direction. We add features, integrations, layers and processes. Complexity accumulates and suddenly it becomes the default. The desirable goal is to pull in the other direction, to make the problem smaller, the architecture cleaner, the product sharper and the path forward unmistakable.

Reduce, refine and reveal the essential, until what remains is both simple and undeniably true.