tl;dr: I’m following up on my “Start Simply, Simply Start” from a bit ago with some more practical thoughts on starting simply. My hope is to also write on the second of these ideas, “On Simply Starting.” Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability Edsger W. Djikstra I wrote a short(ish) post a bit ago about starting and starting simply. It was a rather “in the moment” piece of writing, not one I’d spent a long time actually composing.