Advice worth repeating
15th January 2004
Tim Bray’s Laws of Explanation:
The First Law
When you’re explaining something to somebody and they don’t get it, that’s not their problem, it’s your problem.
The Second Law
When someone’s explaining something to you and you’re not getting it, it’s not your problem, it’s their problem.
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