Your Job Isn't Writing Code

I like this article. I think it has been stated many time before in many different articles and books and is mostly common knowledge now. So I think we need some meta principles:

1) Don't think you are the only one who understands these principles and realize people are going to have differing opinions on what is the simplest thing that can be done.

2) Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it complicated. If you don't understand something another is talking about try to reserve your judgement as to how simple (or not simple) it is until you actually understand what is being said.

3) Don't over do it with this advice. Sometimes you need to add a bit of complication to make the big picture easier. "A thing should be as simple or as complicated as it needs to be nothing more".