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>You have to pretend to be a neutral reader who knows nothing of what's in your head, only what you wrote. [...] If you make an effort, you can read your writing as if you were a complete stranger, and when you do the news is usually bad.

Disagree on that because of The Curse of Knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

The various attempts at explaining "monads", "web3", "Kubernetes", etc will still leave many smart readers exclaiming "I still don't get it."

PG's own essays (e.g. wealth inequality) have been misinterpreted in HN threads.

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