Wow, 510 karma and counting. This post currently has the 14th most karma all time and most for this year. Makes me think back to this excerpt from Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!.
A few years ago, an eminent scientist once told me how he’d written an explanation of his field aimed at a much lower technical level than usual. He had thought it would be useful to academics outside the field, or even reporters. This ended up being one of his most popular papers within his field, cited more often than anything else he’d written.
The lesson was not that his fellow scientists were stupid, but that we tend to enormously underestimate the effort required to properly explain things.
Wow, 510 karma and counting. This post currently has the 14th most karma all time and most for this year. Makes me think back to this excerpt from Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low!.