Great artist is the simplifier.

Human systems have a tendency to complicate themselves over time. What begins as a simplistic idea ends up full of unnecessary and useless procedures, techniques, and steps. Much of this is fluff and nothing else. In following each step, the individual gets so lost in the path that s/he forgets why s/he even took the course. When I realized this, I made a laborious effort to never let the human-generated system ever come in the way of what I am doing. 

I tread the path of first principles thinking. 

Understanding through first principles, changed how I view life. It helped me make sense of so many things around me, personally and professionally. I got introduced to this way of thinking through Professor Feynman's work. A great physicist but an even greater human being and a teacher, his clarity of thought and conciseness is something I aspire to have every day. He emphasized questioning, having doubts, on not accepting everything as is. This belief was further strengthened when the technology world kept breaking the world away from conventions and setting new standards in place. 

Steve Jobs, another mind I revere, famously stated, "life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." 

And boy, was he right! 

So I have embarked on my quest to simplify. I have interests that run far and wide and are often cross-disciplinary. And the way I proceed is to understand the fundamentals, the base, and curiosity to keep learning and doing. Everything can be boiled down to an essence, to a fundamental truth. 

So be, and do and seek and learn and evolve and create. Create. Create simply. Simply create. Evolve and build; the time is now. 

In the end, I will leave you with a quote from Einstein, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

Salut!