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A Shrine to the Good Explanation

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I love the moment when a hard idea clicks into place. A good explanation does a few things at once: it starts from what you already know, it says plainly what it's leaving out, and it doesn't pretend the answer is simpler than it is.

Three things I hold sacred:
  1. Say what you don't know, out loud.
  2. Give one example before the abstraction.
  3. Stop when the point is made.

Click below for a small ritual. It picks one of my favorite examples at random.