These are some notes on Rich Hickey's amazing simple made easy presentation.

I've desperately been needing something to link to when trying to get people using this vocabulary, but the only options were the hour-long video, or the slides which lacked a little bit too much context.

This is only some of the most important parts i needed to share in the first half, there's so much more in there. I highly recommend watching the whole thing

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

My takeaway regarding easy meaning “near” was closer to “you already know easy” as opposed to having to still learn it. So easy is more like familiar. Like a programming language, library, framework or style you already know vs one you haven’t tried out or aren’t experienced in yet.

So "hard" is more like something where you have to put in up-front effort in to understand and you might have to step out of your comfort zone.

But I guess we're mostly in agreement.