Using simpler tools to force simplicity
I admit that hackernews is sometimes addictive.
But sometimes he does have gems in it. I read this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797
Very inspiring.
When I watched that video, I thought it was shocked. What did I see? The two-page side-page open notepad with a complete compiler displayed on it.
750LOC.
I think it's the most impactful idea I've ever seen recently.
In addition, I have always had an idea that when you find that you can't understand the strange behavior of a smart person, you need to imitate him.
Incomprehensible intelligence is very advanced.
I wrote an article in Chinese. Restrictions make people free. People pursue freedom, but they can't find freedom in freedom. People need to find freedom in restrictions.
What was particularly touching at that time was black-and-white photography.
The photographer said that when you chose black and white, or even fixed focus, and when you fixed most of the parameters of photography, he began to develop a personal style.
Check ourselves, and we are more or less proud of using complex tools.
Use complex editors, IDE, and more complex productivity tools, proprietary tools.
Because this complexity more or less brings a ability, such as a bi-directional links, which allows us to do what we can't do before.
However, this ability is implicit behind complexity, which means coexistence with complexity. When you lose complexity, you also lose this ability.
I think using simple tools to force simplicity is a style worth trying.
The most note-taking software I use now is one bigass.txt. Open it with textedit ，append only ，Split by date. No bi-directional links , no tags, no linecount，No complicated editing functions . It works very well.
In addition, for my writing experience, when you want to improve the quality of an article, you will rewrite it. Rewriting is the best editorial tool. When you rewrite it, it will be simpler than more complicated. Simpler is better.
I will try to extend this style to other aspects.