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title: "KERI is not complex or complicated. Instead, it simplifies."
maintainer: "Henk van Cann"
authors:
  - "Henk van Cann"
date: "2024-07-12"
year: 2024
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status: "quiet"
status_meaning: "no change in six to eighteen months; still correct"
access: "public"
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topics:
  - "theory"
  - "start-here"
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  - "product"
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  - "investor"
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://medium.com/@hvancann/keri-is-not-complex-or-complicated-instead-it-simplifies-da285b20a7db"
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abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# KERI is not complex or complicated. Instead, it simplifies.

An article of July 2024 by Henk van Cann arguing that KERI simplifies rather than complicates, starting from the difference between complex and complicated.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://medium.com/@hvancann/keri-is-not-complex-or-complicated-instead-it-simplifies-da285b20a7db (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.