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Friday 2/9/2007
Interview: Marissa Mayer, Product Manager, Google

“I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere. When you need a certain tool, you can pull these lovely doodads out of it and get what you want. So on Google, rather than showing you upfront that we can do all these things, we give you tips to encourage you to do things these ways. We get you to put your query in the search field, rather than have all these links up front. That’s worked well for us. Like when you see a knife with all 681 functions opened up, you’re terrified.” MORE âž²

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Simplicity

Simplicity can be many things: Pure, clear, easy, plain, beautiful, restrained. But making things simple is actually very complicated. As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”



Links from February 2007:
2/28: Etymology of “simple”
2/27: Simplicity and the 80/20 rule
2/26: Simplicity quotes
2/23: Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi, and the Tea Ceremony
2/22: The Complexity of Simplicity
2/21: This Is Broken
2/20: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
2/19: The Simplicity Forum
2/16: The Simple Living Network
2/15: Wabi-sabi: A culture of simplicity
2/14: The Simplicity Resource Guide
2/13: The Goldilocks Principle
2/12: The Sweet Spot on the Curve
2/9: Interview: Marissa Mayer, Product Manager, Google
2/8: The Beauty of Simplicity
2/7: In defense of simplicity
2/6: Joel Spolsky: Simplicity
2/5: Occam’s razor
2/2: Simplicity Is Highly Overrated
2/1: Thoughts On Simplicity

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di4ent is an experiment. It's a collection of topical rotating wunderkammeresque distractions and delights. In other words, every month I'll choose four topics that I'd like to learn more about, or that I already find interesting and want to explore. Every weekday there will be a new post in each of the four topics. I decided to start it to give form and aim to my endless online wanderings. Plus I just like creating work for myself. So, I guess it's an online experiment in learning, linking, research and wasting time.

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Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
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