December 21st, 2007
The Curse of Knowledge
A couple of days ago a read through my blog, and discovered that I too suffer from the Curse of Knowledge described in the book Made To Stick
I tend to write sloppy, knowing that the readers already knows some of this stuff. But this is wrong. The Curse of Knowledge means exactly this. You want to present something to people, but you didn’t take in consideration that people doesn’t have similar background as you do, which makes you a bad presenter.
Chip & Dan Heath’s book is absolutely great. A must read for all people, not just programmers, but managers, presenters, teachers. The book defines and teaches how to present something to people that they understand exactly the same as you intended to.
This was the first book that I enjoyed reading every single page.
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