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5 Books About Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
When I moved to Silicon Valley, I donated all of my books to Designer Fund in San Francisco. It’s freeing to let go of the past. I’ve found that it makes things a lot simpler for yourself — and it forces you to figure out what truly matters. As I wrote in a book on simplicity now over a decade ago: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. [[ From mid-2018 I have started a YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/johnmaedaislearning ]]
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Painting by Jane Mount of my book shelf in 2012.
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