Art of craft

Simplicity doesn't emerge from starting with the basics and adding features. It comes from deeply understanding all the complexity of the problem—edge cases, user mental models, technical constraints— and only then can you create interfaces that make all that underlying complexity invisible. The more deeply you embrace complexity in your thinking, the simpler the experience becomes.

Craft—independent of the trade itself—appears not from any single stroke of genius, but from a careful cultivation of potential. Standing before a raw piece of marble and resisting the urge to force early perfection. Instead, feel its potential: a spaciousness that can accommodate many problems at once, each waiting to be resolved into an elegant pattern, revealing its shape until others recognize its beauty.

In the end, they'll say: "Of course! It's so obvious." But what they see is only the final state. What you know is the hidden complexity. You didn't invent something impossible; you revealed what we all secretly suspected could be done, and in doing so, gave it form.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. - Mark Weiser

This requires humility to understand that the end goal is solving a human problem, not about your craft. Our ego will always attempt to reach some kind of perfection-that is almost all the times counterproductive.