[mikeryan]

I had an engineering boss who used this as a mantra (he is now an SVP of engineering at Spotify and we worked together at Comcast)

I think the unspoken part here is “let’s start with…”

It doesn’t mean you won’t have to “do all the things” so much as let’s start with too little so we don’t waste time doing things we end up not needing.

Once you aggregate all the simple things you may end up with a complex behemoth but hopefully you didn’t spend too much time on fruitless paths getting there.