by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A fundamental question of each of us is, “Do I want someone else to understand?” If yes, great effort may be required. If no, keep moving.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I work with other persons. Nothing unique there, but I am fortunate in that most of these others are really smart and are working on the types of things that really smart persons typically work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I often attempt to grasp what these really smart persons are doing. They sometimes attempt to have me grasp what they are doing. We both frequently fail at this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A fundamental question for these really smart persons (and the rest of us as well) is, “Do I want someone else to understand?” Will an explanation cause a listener to say the two-word title of this post, i.e., “What’dya say?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In non-fiction communication\u2014the area where I and my colleagues attempt to swim\u2014the communicator must take the role of the defensive driver. I will do more than my part or …<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will make it difficult for the reader to misunderstand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n That is easier written than written. The word “easier” is key. It is difficult to meet the above; it requires lots of effort on my part. Is that effort worth it? It is if the answer to the fundamental question is, “Yes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the answer to the fundamental question is, “No.” Then move along with the work and maybe the others will catch on later. If, however, I depend on the others…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips A fundamental question of each of us is, “Do I want someone else to understand?” If yes, great effort may be required. If no, keep moving. I work with other persons. Nothing unique there, but I am fortunate in that most of these others are really smart and are working on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,63,43],"tags":[154,183,165],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-expectations","category-ideas","tag-communication","tag-expectations","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}