Declutter your code, declutter your life

Nice reflection on Skrentablog on reducing clutter in your codebase. Code is our enemy:

You should do whatever possible to increase the productivity of individual programmers in terms of the expressive power of the code they write. Less code to do the same thing (and possibly better). Less programmers to hire. Less organizational communication costs.

This doesn’t apply just to code. It applies to almost everything: less clutter leads to less overhead (of various kinds) leads to improved results. See, for example, Merlin Mann’s recent post on his personal war on clutter.