Upvoted. Every time I’m tempted to provide a long post aimed at the general public, I’ve found it worthwhile to look at a math or biochemistry paper that is far outside of my knowledge domains—the sort of stuff that requires you to go searching for a glossary to find the name of a symbol.
Sufficiently abstract writing feels like that to a significant amount of the populace, and worse, even Up-Goer 5-level writing looks like it will feel like that, to a lot of people who’ve been trained into thinking they’re not good enough at this matter.
((I still tend to make a lot of long posts, because apparently I am a terrible person.))
Upvoted. Every time I’m tempted to provide a long post aimed at the general public, I’ve found it worthwhile to look at a math or biochemistry paper that is far outside of my knowledge domains—the sort of stuff that requires you to go searching for a glossary to find the name of a symbol.
Sufficiently abstract writing feels like that to a significant amount of the populace, and worse, even Up-Goer 5-level writing looks like it will feel like that, to a lot of people who’ve been trained into thinking they’re not good enough at this matter.
((I still tend to make a lot of long posts, because apparently I am a terrible person.))