<i>Why write a 5 paragraph email that can be expressed in 3 lines? Why waste your coworker’s time with a 2 hour presentation? It’s probably because your email is garbage and your presentation sucks.</i><p>Or, you know, you might have a complex point to put across. Otherwise we might as well throw email out and stick to twitter. Throw out books, and stick to blogs,<p>Minimalism is not its own reward. Seek neither to minimise nor to maximise; aim to optimise. There is a sweet spot for everything. Why should I only have one bank account? The problem would not be having three bank accounts, but having more than I needed.