Keep It Simple, Sweetie!

It's so important to be creative, especially when it comes to solving problems for humans. There is this interesting human nature desire to create and chase new shiny things that appear more fun and cool than what we've gotten used to. I've been thinking about this a lot with legal drafting and relationship structures. Sometimes lawyers make things so complicated! And sheesh, sometimes statutory schemes mandate structural complexity that doesn't solve the problems it is purporting to solve.

I, like most lawyers and nerds, love to share what I've learned and offer innovation to my clients. Evolution and improvement is a good goal, and our job requires us to account for factual nuances and foreseeable problems. 

And one question always ringing in my mind is whether the new way is an actual improvement. If it's super hard to understand and super hard to explain, that feels like a red flag to me.

While honoring the virtues of consistent improvement and evolution, I like balancing one of my favorite mantras for life, *KISS IT - Keep It Simple, Sweetie!*. I use this frame of reference when helping my clients evaluate their options for entity structures, relationship models, and conflict management tools. It's critical to know the menu of options and how they help people, their trade-offs, and why they may be great or annoying, and I love playing the "What If?" game while taking into account the sustainability of simplicity and ease.

Muah!

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