"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." This is one of my favorite quotes, and most people completely misunderstand what it means. They think it's about being simple. Living minimally. Reducing everything to basic elements. But that's not sophistication, that's just reduction. Any idiot can make things simpler by removing stuff. Real sophistication is compression. Taking something incredibly complex and distilling it down to its essential elements without losing the power. Like turning a...