Why Nothing Ever Gets Simpler

Add complexity. Never subtract. Every process layers on top. Every "improvement" becomes permanent baggage.

Organizations are one-way complexity ratchets. Until they snap.

Nobody's job description says "remove things", only "add solutions".

This is the hidden law of institutional physics.

Complexity is a one-way ratchet.

Why? Because subtraction requires someone to say "this thing we built was wrong." Addition just requires saying "this thing will help."

One path threatens egos. The other path promises progress.

Guess which one wins?

This is why successful companies eventually become bureaucratic nightmares. Not because they failed, because they succeeded too many times.

This connects to The Delegation Death Spiral - without clarity, delegation becomes chaos redistribution.

Every addition costs more than you think. Every subtraction saves more than you expect. The Momentum Engine shows how to simplify.