it took me 15 years to finally understand this: if a reviewer or reader doesn't understand something i wrote, that is on me, not them. even if the text makes perfect sense to me, it needs rewriting.
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The problem is that misunderstanding shades gradually into intellectual dishonesty. Some people misread you because they want to. At some point you have to draw a line and say "I've explained this clearly enough for an unbiased person to understand it."
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They don't want to. They're just lost. Too much fear has led them to run and hide from truth. Their bias is set behind a door in their ego. But it can be unlocked. The key is love.
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Sometimes ...it’s superiority signalling
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^^^^ agreed, or they have a specific and antiquated idea of thinking and won’t accept any new ways of looking at something no matter how hard you try
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
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Depends if your audience *actually* consists of unbiased people (which is rare). My founders and I always went by "If a VC or a user doesn't get it, it's on you to change your messaging to fit the audience. There always exists a right selection of words." It put the onus on us.
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I've been thinking about this a lot. I wonder if this is also true: "change your audience to fit your messaging" I think that sometimes it may be easier to find the people with whom the message resonates than trying to say it in a way that doesn't resonate with us
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I heard Leland bassett say "your message is what the listener understands"
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.
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Of course that's true sometimes, but it's a bad assumption to make, most people want to understand what they are reading.* Try a different explanation, not everybody has your priors. *Twitter is an exception to this rule.
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Pick your target audience before, not after. If you miss them, that’s on you. If you find yourself dissatisfied with the results even when you hit your target, that’s on you. If you hit it, and are satisfied, please teach me your archer monk ways.
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