The finman razor, named after richard fiman. The idea that if you cannot explain it simply and beautifully and elegantly, you don't really understand the topic in any depth. When i'm trying to learn something new, one of the first things i do is go right into my understanding on a blank sheet of paper. And then i leave for five minutes, mayee, go for a walk, make a coffee, et cetera. Then i come back to it. En, i think writing is a natural way to do this, if you don't have some one to actually explain it too. So i call this technique plus minus, equal. But the minus part

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