🌱📈 Simplicity scales

When programming, we learn that simple interfaces and simple data structures are good, because they are flexible.

Simple file formats are the same. We can do way more with a CSV or Markdown file in terms of presentation and automation than we can with Excel or Word documents.

This seems counterintuitive -- Excel is a very powerful tool, and the right tool for many uses. However, an Excel file is not as composable as simple formats. As an example, consider the assets of a Perplexity labs project. They are Python scripts, CSV, Markdown, etc. Why? Because a powerful tool, like AI, can do more with simple formats.

Complex formats (Ex: Excel) allow a single person to do a lot in the short term, but simple formats allow a team and automation to do way more over time.

The way to scale YOUR Platform is to compose simple interfaces, data structures, and file formats. A little more work short term, but way more powerful long-term.