Success in Simplicity

Success in Simplicity


The success and sometimes a person's success is not necessarily due to high technology, graduates of prestigious universities, attractiveness user interface (read: handsome or beautiful), authority, genius, intelligence, or because the attributes of a great and cool the other. Many roads to success, so many roads, making "techniques to be successful" becomes difficult to be made formula. We certainly can not guess that what was done by a student named Jerry Yang to collect the links site, create categories and search features will make the site a leading portal and search engine in the world (Yahoo.Com). It is a bit of discussion at the Public Lecture Widyatama University of Bandung, where I was asked to become a speaker for the theme "Trends of Human Resources and IT Career Path." Om Thanks Alex, who had me wading nemenin Cipularang toll.

Iwan Fals has become a legend in the Indonesian scene. Yet such recognition mas Iwan at the beginning of his career, he could only three chord guitar playing. The song is also a simple, modest, strength and uniqueness is precisely in the lyrics. Precisely with the simplicity of use of guitar chord, my junior high who was still able to easily sing-song "Bachelor," "I Take", "This book I Borrow" property of Regine Velasquez with a cheap guitar bought for my parents. Similarly, children who used to gather at a post in the village watchmen, who learned guitar arbitrary, can still sing with melodious songs mas Iwan. And finally simple songs mas Iwan echoed throughout the republic, famous and legendary. Similar to mas Iwan, Kangen Band dicibir people because his music is often low quality, in his song "Between Me, You and Him" capital only 3-4 chord guitar. But the fact proves that sales are on track to reach more than 400 thousand pieces (picked up two platinum). With the simplicity (or even lack of) that we have we can still be creative to reach a success.

Tukul Arwana become a new icon in the world of talk shows in Indonesia. Mas Tukul break attribute talkshow host who usually intelligent, smart, cool and dignified. Whereas Mas Ndeso Tukul itself is wong with Indonesian accent ala porous Perbalan Semarang and coupled with a covered in the English language. Maya is a trend setter hammer a new, simple sentences like "back to the laptop", "satisfied you are satisfied" or banter ala semarang as "lice kupret", "katrok", "tamarind ik", etc. to spread nationally. Mas Tukul succeeded in making the simplicity and lack of capital to be successful.

Google.Com including "destructive myth" world of web design. Looks too simple, of course it would be difficult to win web design contest at the world level or even at the level of Indonesia, but in fact the theoretical software engineering, Google.Com is the best example of how a system and software development. If the goal is to create a search engine system alias be the solution for information search, why should display the top page other than the column to search? Google.Com prove reap success by 60-70% market share for search engines.

IlmuKomputer.Com had often mocked people for being too simplistic in web technology, using static html only, without the attractive design and even without the CMS. I am not a good designer, and I really want to focus on giving solutions in the existing problems (as a reference can read my article about building a virtual community). After four years, using static html, in early 2007 IlmuKomputer.Com I change using dynamic html with a simple CMS is WordPress. Simply because the small size, business process is not complicated and I do not bother if there are security holes because I just updated with the latest version of Wordpress.Org CMS. With the comfort that I can concentrate on content and I want to offer solutions. I am sure IlmuKomputer.Com not successful, but the number of visitors and hits a high daily proves that many users (and more).

We change the persistence and foresight of a simplicity and even weaknesses or deficiencies, become a strength is the key to success. Do not be embarrassed, do not lower yourself and do not pay attention to ridicule others just because we are at school or university that is not prominent in the small university in a small town anyway Linus Torvald is not a graduate of Stanford University or MIT succeeded in proving that Linux can be a reliable operating system and famous, even beating world champions Prof operating system. Andrew S. Tannenbaum previously make MINIX.

Creativity to produce products that are recognized and beneficial to society must be continuously refined, it is often what I call de facto superiority. High school may also be important because these are the hallmarks dejure. So the advantage is the de facto and dejure including success factors. Targeting to become a qualified specialist should continue pursued, because in the next era of fewer and fewer areas of work for the generalist (understood many things but just skin-skin). But do not forget also that we must become a specialist who have verbal skills and can "sell" and "negotiate" with others about our products and our excellence. Such specialists are often called Versatilist.

Congratulations to my brother and sister students everywhere!


(From netsains.com)