"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

Rich Hickey delivers a talk centered on the critical distinction between "simple" and "easy" in software development, advocating for simplicity as a prerequisite for reliability. He argues that the industry's overemphasis on immediate ease and familiarity leads to complex systems that are difficult to understand and maintain long-term. Hickey urges developers to focus on creating simple, unentangled components that can be composed effectively, rather than being seduced by superficially easy constructs that yield complex artifacts. He also touches on the importance of choosing simpler tools, designing for simplicity through abstraction, and disentangling existing complexity in code.