It’s much better to write the piece that you want to read yourself, which usually means pitching the technical content at a level slightly higher than you were comfortable with when you started thinking about it.
Inapplicable when you’re writing about natural sciences for layman audience.
Apparently, Davies thinks that half the time the layman audience isn’t really there, and the rest of the time, they’re not interested in a watered-down version of the real natural sciences. Even if you succeed, all that you achieve is that now a bunch of morons don’t understand the natural sciences and think that you agree with them.
Inapplicable when you’re writing about natural sciences for layman audience.
Apparently, Davies thinks that half the time the layman audience isn’t really there, and the rest of the time, they’re not interested in a watered-down version of the real natural sciences. Even if you succeed, all that you achieve is that now a bunch of morons don’t understand the natural sciences and think that you agree with them.