Don't Over-Promise (a pun & a parable)

In Blog Post Number One, I referred to the Zen of Python's rules for keeping things simple, readable, explainable.

That all seems simple, easy to repeat, good advice to avoid endless mindloops. But it's easily forgotten when there are many concerns or people to address as the number of communications becomes combinatoric.

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…then keep it simple

I like the Zen of Python, particularly the points excerpted by Jack Diederich in his talk, "Stop Writing Classes," at PyCon US 2012:

• simple is better than complex
• flat is better than nested
• readability counts
• if the implementation is hard to explain it's a bad idea
• if the implementation is easy to explain it may be a good idea

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