{"id":2711,"date":"2018-08-06T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2018-07-21T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:50:34","slug":"brevity-clarity-and-explanations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/08\/brevity-clarity-and-explanations\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevity, Clarity, and Explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I cannot explain something with brevity and clarity, I am not ready to explain it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gosh, that summary is a killer. I am ready to explain something. I have this earth-changing wonderful great super-duper (note the lack of brevity and clarity) idea that the world needs to hear and implement just absolutely right now!!!<\/p>\n<p>But, I am yet able to explain it clearly and briefly, like in one sentence of less than 20 words (and 20 words is a pretty darn long yawn-inducing sentence\u2014and not again how that is neither brief nor clear).<\/p>\n<p>I need to go back and consider my idea further. Brainstorming? Well, good. Brevity and Clarity still rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t ready to explain this. Let\u2019s use some brainstorming or other techniques to help<br \/>\nus understand what we want to explain.\u201d That is a brief and clear statement of the present. Such serve us much better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we don\u2019t have time for this. We must move on now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is an opinion. The lack of brevity and clarity are much closer to fact. Please, patience. The additional thought may serve us well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips If I cannot explain something with brevity and clarity, I am not ready to explain it. Gosh, that summary is a killer. I am ready to explain something. I have this earth-changing wonderful great super-duper (note the lack of brevity and clarity) idea that the world needs to hear and implement just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,113,32,43,20,327,50],"tags":[226,225,154,165,142,328,172],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brevity","category-clarity","category-communication","category-ideas","category-learning","category-patience","category-thinking","tag-brevity","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-ideas","tag-learning","tag-patience","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}