“It’s complex to make something simple, but it’s simple to make something complex.”
— as conveyed by Steve Jobs to Kara Swisher during an interview.
This idea shapes how I think about building technology products. The hardest engineering problems are not about adding more features or layers of abstraction. They are about removing everything that is not essential until what remains feels obvious. Threshold cryptography, for example, involves deeply complex mathematics, but the end goal is a system where users never have to think about key management or trust assumptions. The complexity lives under the hood so the experience can be simple and secure.
In product development, the temptation is always to ship more. But the discipline of simplicity, knowing what to leave out, is what separates tools people tolerate from tools people rely on. Jobs understood this better than anyone, and it is a standard worth holding in every domain from blockchain infrastructure to enterprise data platforms.