Simplicity

October 29, 2008 by Mark T. Rafter · Leave a Comment 

Wouldn’t it be great if you could write about ’simplicity’ and all you had to say was the word itself and people would ‘get’ it?

OK … likely not that easy.  I am reading The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness, by Steven Levy.  I love Levy’s writing, in part because I am technology geek at heart (at least part of me is) and his writing combines technology with social aspect of the time(s) along with plenty of smart insider jabs and commentary that keep things rolling (his book Hackers should be read by anyone who uses a computer).  Enough about Levy.

There is a quote in the book from Steve Jobs who, as you might guess, figures prominently in any Read more