Chris Williamson

He likens this to school teaches us to solve the problem in front of us.

You can't reject a question on a test.

Yeah.

Dumb.

Don't like it.

Take it back.

Oh, 100%.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Here's your A. It doesn't happen.

The first step of the algorithm, this is his five-step engineering process, is to question the requirements.

Then the second is to try very, very hard to delete the part or process.

The best part is no part, the best process is no process.

If something can be deleted, the product gets simpler.

Simplicity, as he says, delivers both reliability and low cost.

And so I think it is this, we spend so much time doing things or optimizing things that truly don't need to exist.

And if you look at the complexity of plenty of products around us, it's like, did nobody try to put these parts together?

But when you're trying to build a car out of 10,000 different parts, you're like, all right, every time I can put, I can combine these two things, it's one less thing to attach to another.

And then it's

four less parts because I don't need these two screws to connect these two parts together.