A Progressive Complexity Manifesto

Loren Stewart, conveying a few hard truths gently:

• Complexity often masquerades as sophistication; simplicity requires confidence.
• True mastery lies not in conquering all tools, but in wielding the fewest with precision.
• Over-engineering is unclear thinking wearing a clever disguise.
• We often choose the comfort of importing solutions over the discomfort of understanding problems.
• The server that renders HTML has solved more problems than the framework that promises to.
• The most dangerous moment comes with the first success of a complex solution, for it justifies all future complexity.