I come up blank on a regular basis when thinking about the usefulness of sharing something. Useful content tends to teach me a model or enable me to built one.
Unexpectedly useful content extends a model the writer didn’t know the reader had or fills a conceptual hole of the readers model.
Unexpectedly useless content tries to teach about something the reader already has a good model for.
I’d love to have even a bad heuristic (for not totally obvious cases) of this problem.
I come up blank on a regular basis when thinking about the usefulness of sharing something.
Useful content tends to teach me a model or enable me to built one.
Unexpectedly useful content extends a model the writer didn’t know the reader had or fills a conceptual hole of the readers model.
Unexpectedly useless content tries to teach about something the reader already has a good model for.
I’d love to have even a bad heuristic (for not totally obvious cases) of this problem.