Saturday
Jun062009
Ten Rules
Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 5:01PM Umair Haque has distilled ten rules from how Twitter has developed that I reckon are spot on for how to be successful in whatever you do in the future:
1. Ideals beat strategies.
2. Open beats closed.
3. Connection beats transaction.
4. Simplicity beats complexity.
5. Neighborhoods beat networks.
6. Circuits beat channels.
7. Laziness beats business.
8. Public beats private.
9. Messy beats clean.
10. Good beats evil.
I have deliberately left them as headings to encourage you to go and read the whole post.
Reader Comments (2)
4. Simplicity beats complexity.
Simplicity is the building block of complexity. AKA 'plectics' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectics.This is why I like to bang on about the difference between complex and complicated. It's a really useful tool, not just for academics!
Agree nwith Stuart. Umair perhaps uses that constructin for simplicity's sake? Perhaps more clearly (though less elegantly) stated as simple beats complicated. The complexity of twitter is a wonder to behold - built by a myriad of very simple interactions :-)