The more gigabytes of space, the more racks of books your computer shelves could hold. He explained that in the library were racks of shelves holding books and each of these racks was representative of gigabytes of hard drive storage. He told me to pretend that the local library was the computer box itself. What he described to me next was nothing short of amazing. I expressed to him how lost I felt at the technical words being thrown out at me, and I begged him to find a way to dumb it down into terms I could understand. I left the room feeling discouraged and frustrated.ĭesperate to understand computer hardware, I turned to my younger brother who was revered as a genius on computers. They may as well have been speaking Chinese to me at that point, because although I could hear the words they were saying, I couldn't relate them to anything that was familiar to me. I asked my IT employees to teach me, and they proceeded to explain to me that computers were made up of a hard drive that stored gigabytes of data, Random Access Memory (RAM), a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and so on.
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID AA SOFTWARE
To learn a new concept, I need things described in a way that I can relate them to something I am already familiar with. For example, when I was a young CEO starting a software company, I needed to learn about computer hardware so I could speak intelligently on the subject. I consider myself to be a somewhat intelligent person, but when someone explains a new concept to me in terms that are overly complex and unfamiliar, I struggle to easily grasp it. “Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” C.
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