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Following your own advice

These pages (via Kottke.org) attractively outline DeBono's "simplicity principles" (which I'd never heard of before). Unfortunately, the opening page has this big tagline:

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

A good sentiment. But it would be shorter and easier to understand as:

An expert is someone who makes decisions simpler by knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Even better:

An expert makes decisions simpler by knowing what's important and what isn't.

Simple. See?

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