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I much prefer those simple pages. Load fast, display fast, no distraction. A little bit like HN.. except for the load fast part :P
TL;DR
Find a story on Reddit, and usually TL;DR is a first comment. Here, we actually prefer to first read and then comment, or not comment at all.
PS: I kind of missed "all craftwardship is of the highest quality" in the page, though (or text that menaced with spikes of http or something.) I guess I'm too geeky today
"I wrote these words, and you're reading them"... and Google knows you're reading them. I find it a bit ironical that a manifesto for minimalism still carries Google Analytics code to track people.
It's true. There's a bit of CSS. There's also a tracking script. I also needed a web server to host them, an FTP client to transfer them, plus the entire infrastructure of the web to make this work. ;) So beneath the simplicity of "just words" is some complexity. But all that stuff is invisible for most people visiting the page. The point is that simple words on a page can be powerful and effective.
Interesting that the website where he makes money, is full of pictures and colors for the call to actions. http://buildandlaunch.net/
I think this is a beautiful exposition of a powerful truth: words are magical, and we can now publish anything we want so that anyone who wants to can read it. That is amazing power, and it's available to almost anyone who is literate, in the developed world.