2018-07-12

Simplicity Day

Henry David Thoreau    
When I taught college one of my constants in the way of admonitions for those seriously pursuing technical careers was my practice of the "KISS" method: "keep it simple, sweetheart" ... which was a polite company variant on the thing told to me in the Navy.

Over the years I have attempted to simplify the complex and it has allowed me to go places and do things for which a lot of my peers never aspired and indeed — cannot do either.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Henry David Thoreau
Walden
It is said that today is "Simplicity Day" in celebration of the anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birthday.

The significance I believe is his advice to readers regarding the simplification of their lives. The complexities which comprise the world today could use a bit of simplification.