Elegant Organization

Jarvis's reading touched on the idea of "Elegant Organization," that is that we ought to create things that solve needs. It seems like a simple concept, but I think a lot of people that try to invent the "next big thing" forget this basic idea. Take a look at the television show "American Inventor," it's a reality show based on being a self made inventor and getting the funding for it. It seems like a lot of American's want to get rich quick, without putting in the work to do so. They hear stories about someone who created an app or a tiny invention and think, "hey, I can do that!"

The idea of elegant organization is so important. Why waste time building and creating something that may not be useful, when you can collaborate and build with others? The internet is one of the most distracting and disrupting things we have towards organization and that, Jarvis claims, is where the key lies. Creating a website or an app or social media site...whatever, that will create some sort of organization to the confusing mess that is the internet is what innovators need to focus on.

I think the website Reddit is one of the least elegant social media websites. It's interesting that on websites such as Facebook they get updates to how they look every few months. Reddit stays pretty much the same though. I think if someone created a website similar to Reddit, but took into mind the "elegant organization" concept, it could be very popular. In this day and age where new apps and social media platforms are constantly being created, it's important to create something both visually appealing and also something that fills a void and need that another website/app seems to neglect.

Websites are constantly updating their appearance to be more cutting edge, user friendly, and eye catching. There is a time portal like website called Wayback Machine where you can see how, for example, CNN.com's front webpage looked on a certain date in the past. It's really interesting to see how websites have evolved to become more elegantly organized.