{"id":678,"date":"2026-10-25T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:12:42","slug":"on-simple-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/on-simple-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"On Simple Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- obsidian --><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to master a complicated system to get results. Sometimes, a few techniques that work well together are enough.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late \u201990s, I picked up speed reading from a few books and combined it with Tony Buzan\u2019s mind maps. That simple combination helped me handle demanding college courses, including accelerated Latin.<\/p>\n<p>The takeaway: A simple system you actually use beats a perfect system you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>RW<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need to master a complicated system to get results. Sometimes, a few techniques that work well together are enough. Back in the late \u201990s, I picked up speed reading from a few books and combined it with Tony Buzan\u2019s mind maps. That simple combination helped me handle demanding college courses, including accelerated Latin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindset","category-personal","category-strategy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}