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#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research
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The Curse of Knowledge
The curse of knowledge is that once you know something it's very hard to intuit how people could be confused. Be aware of custom knowledge a good way around that and just draft relatively early before sending out your work. If you have an abstract concept having a concrete example is useful, especially if they don't share other variables in common. Try to use things that are as common as possible apart from the thing you want to point to or explain. Use more examples that helps with explaining concepts than ones that only apply to specific situations like when everyone wants jelly beans but there aren't enough so someone has to charge more for them. Don't spend too much time carefully crafting perfect phrasings because
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