After building a blog with wordpress, I began to know more about domain, hosting, dns, blog platform. It was quite easy to establish your own website or blog with wordpress. However, I just found it too complex to use wordpress just for blog, personal blog in particular. With tons of developers contributing to themes and plugins, wordpress is so powerful that you can create almost everything you want. So, people tend to play with Ghost, tumblr, octpress……It seems everything returns to the origin, no php, no database, just static pages, just html, css, js. Then here comes the Medium in which you can immerse yourself in contents there. Simple search box, simple writing system, simple UI, no comments system, all you need to do are reading and writing.
As for nature science, “the simplest, the best” works as well. In order to explore the mystery of nature, to see things more clearly, scientists invent microscope, electron microscope, atomic force microscope…It becomes more and more difficult to handle these equipments. In addition, scientists determine Newton Law, Maxwell Electromagnetic theory, the Quantum theory. Undoubtedly, it becomes more and more tough for students to learn. Meanwhile the Unified Field Theory has been studied for ages. If the theory is complete one day, nearly every physical quantity will be unified together. No more atom, molecular, just some basic elements. Everything seems to return to the origin.
The rule goes for personal management too. Plan -> execution -> feedback. There are so many management software on Internet, such as Evernote, to do list, outlook……Finally, you’ll find just pen and pager are enough.
For education, MOOCs like Coursera, edX, Udacity emerge in large numbers. Many interesting parts are added to course materials. Similarly, paper books turns out a more efficient approach. Just like Lang Lang said “It’s impossible to practice piano with pleasure at the start. It takes long time and great efforts to play piano well. Then you can enjoy it”.
All in all, just follow the simplest way. Do not make things complicated.