I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
Emmett Shearx.comI find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
keep coming back to this and realizing its a much bigger problem. some thoughts:
one of my biggest bottlenecks to learning is how easily and comfortably i can ask multiple questions at once, especially "dumb" or foundational / basic questions. all of my best teachers growing up would listen to me ask high + low level... See more
“Explain the entire chain of So what’s”
“So what? Why should people care about your new idea?”
Probably because it accomplishes useful, which the presenter should explain. This part is generally obvious.
Unfortunately, the explanation often sounds like this: So if we do hocus-pocus, this function will now be whizbammable! Then the presenter looks
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