“Brevity is the Soul of Wit”

There’s too much info
for one to read in a day
Hence the haiku blog

— Michael Ong

Footnote: It all started as a tongue-in-cheek idea during a discussion on the appropriate length for a blog entry. Between daily emails, MMS and Facebook posts, do people really have time to read through all the things they need to read in a day, and still have extra time to read the things that they enjoy reading? I often find myself skimming over emails longer than two swipes on my iPhone. I also judge the effectiveness of billboards by the highway based on if I could finish reading the headlines while I’m driving at 65 mph. If Steve Jobs is right about the fact that “People don’t read anymore.”, then what are you doing right now, you might ask.

Being a visual person and a minimalist, I like the challenge of distilling concepts from any visual clutter to their cores. A picture is worth a thousand words. But if one has to use words; less is more.

My subsequent entries will be Haikus and I welcome comments written in the same format.