A concept I borrowed recently from Cindy:
Life is better with “plug and play”
Easier and simpler is better
For example, anything to reduce friction to allow you to most easily play or do anything is supreme.
In photography, the ultimate “plug and play”camera is a phone. You can easily shoot, process/filter your photos, select your favorite photos, and easily share your best photos with yourself or others.
With Windows drivers and printers — plug and play is 1000x better than having to find the drivers online and manually download them.
And I think this is why the App Store is so revolutionary — having to download .exe files on the Windows operating system was a major pain in the ass, and confusing for most people.
Plug and play living
So this is where things start to get interesting for myself —
How can I simplify my life to the maximum, in order for me to have the least distractions/frictions in order to be maximally creatively productive?
Simple solutions
Simple ideas:
- Don’t use the “best” tool for the job, use the simplest tool and solution
- Be skeptical of people who try to sell you a more complicated solution — often more complicated solutions will actually WORSEN your lifestyle. For example, owning more cars, and more possessions often adds MORE STRESS and makes our lives shittier.
- With housing, better to move into a pre-furnished apartment/studio with all amenities and things included. This is also the upside of living in a hotel.
- With design and UI/UX, perhaps we should optimize for ease of use for the user — to make it as “plug and play” as possible. Reduce friction from the setup to the actual playing!
And it seems the goal is this:
Reduce the friction to the max, in order to let us play as easily as possible— to maximize our play!
ERIC