Easy to Complicate the Simple

This:

A person who suspects on reasonable grounds that there has been an unauthorised disclosure or loss of personal information; namely information or an opinion about an identified person, or a person who is reasonably identifiable, whether the information or opinion is true or not; and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not, must as soon as is reasonably possible, assess the alleged unauthorised disclosure and, if the person forms a reasonable belief that the loss or breach may cause serious harm to one or more individuals, must notify the individual or individuals, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Or This:

Click to address an unauthorised access or loss of information.

A characteristic of organisational busywork is impressive but excessive and thus complex narrative nouns.

Meetings, minutes, reports, papers, emails, committees, sub-committees, working parties, consultations, submissions, training, change management.

And a a scarcity of step-by-step processes leading to a decision.

Complicated is mistaken for important and thus valuable.

Simple is mistaken for unsophisticated and cheap.

As any number of famous people are alleged to have said: ‘I would have written you a shorter letter but I didn’t have the time.’

There’s an incentive to befuddle.

It’s easy to complicate the simple.

It’s hard to simplify the complex.