Let Out The Extra Air

There Is Room To Spare

More is not always better

Less is not always more

In between, there's a space

that sweet place, of just enough

Waters of the deep are heavy,

we must exhale on the way up

Expand and contract

space in each place

Let out this extra air

There is room to spare

More is not always better. Less is not always more.

In between there's a space, that sweet place, of just enough.

Think about the spaces and places that are "just right" and "just enough".

Think about where the Earth at the right distance from the sun, with its special blend of gravity, air and magnetic fields for life to live. Too close and it might have cooked, Venus, too far and it might be a snowball, Mars. Think Goldilocks.

Steve Jobs dunked a prototype iPod into a fish tank and showed engineers that tell-tale air bubbles meant there was still space to squeeze out to help make things smaller.

There was extra air to spare.

Instagram's original winning features of "just enough" features won big but at first it was too much. A spartan stripping down of "Burbn" became a billion dollar "bargain" buyout from Facebook.

Fighter pilots used to shut down instruments so that they could fly, fight and come home safe.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote "The Little Prince", and who was also a pilot, said, "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away".

We can let out the extra air, there is room to spare.

Chefs reduce sauces to concentrate form and flavor, savory, sour, bitter and sweet. The sweet science of pro boxers cuts down raw talent into real power. The power of the Cloud's sea of data comes through indexing and filters.

Filters purifies fluids we need to live, water and air, sustaining life. Lives were saved by special mattresses for stuntmen and firefighters that let out the air. The waters of deep sea diving are heavy and we must exhale on the way up as air expands.

Expand and contract, in and out. There is space in each place.

Let out this extra air. There is room to spare.