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Beware Fabricated Complexity

Posted by John Saddington on Oct 14, 2009

Just watch this video and listen to how ridiculous hard it is to understand. What’s so funny is that it’s an “instructional” video.

Now, of course, it could have been used for a very specific audience who’d know all of the verbiage and such, but the point is that it seems over the top and too complex for it’s own good.

I have found that a number of “technologists” barter their skills and knowledge as something to be proud of and “control” the passage of knowledge and information for their own devices.

Beware of these poo-faces, because that’s who they are and what they want to do to your ministry: poo poo on your party.

Fabricating complexity is stupid and an obvious waste of time. It benefits no one and frustrates everyone.

Look for (and hire) people who make complex things easy to understand and people who desire to serve those that aren’t as technologically-savvy. Otherwise you find yourself working with people that make others feel dumb.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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15 Responses to “Beware Fabricated Complexity”

  1. @bigfranco03
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    My head hurts.

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  2. @vinthomas
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    I was wondering what that clinking sound was in my engine…it's probably the dingle arm.

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  3. @Jmerriam
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:05 am

    The "sinusoidial deplenoration" part threw me there. I kept up until that line.

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  4. @mtthwphlps
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 2:13 am

    That video seems like it belongs in a Saturday Night Live episode.

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  5. stephenbateman
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 2:31 am

    The "moxie interrupter"…that was the problem.

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  6. jasonthebaldguy
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:37 am

    What!? it makes perfect sense!

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  7. jasonthebaldguy
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:38 am

    just kidding… now you know why Information Technology guys use acronyms for stuff like this…

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  8. rspilhaus
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 12:22 am

    "Effectively raise the billable hours for the service department, but will perform no other useful function"

    I knew it! hahaha

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  9. Jacqui
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    I felt a little that way at the recent Ministry2.0 conference on social media. Networkers and IT people have created their own language which is just as foreign as this video: "feedburner" "widget" "retool" "microblog" "platforms" "CMS"
    "Joomla" – some mean something totally different in another field (or world) – All I'm saying is we all need to be aware that what can seem obvious or simple to one person can be quite daunting to the uninitiated.

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  10. human3rror
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    that's a great critique… we need to be careful to make sure we make it simple not hard…!

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  11. Clay_Conry
    Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    This same critique could be levied against many pastors w/ their use of "in the greek" and other such confusing language

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  12. human3rror
    Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    ouch!

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