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It also makes the article more personal, which is something that generally improves communication.
by harperlee 11y ago
It also makes the article more personal, which is something that generally improves communication.
- protomyth 11y agoI can only imagine some of the folks reaction to the old storytellers who constantly interjected their personal experience (and sometime the audiences) into the old stories. It honestly shows how the teller relates to the subject. If I had a mathematical tool or language, I would use it to show the work in a story about a mathematician.
- harperlee 11y agoExactly. In general, relating things to the persons behind them gives a lot of context and clarifies why things end up as they are. Although it doesn't only touch these, "Connections", from James Burke, comes to mind. There was a link here a couple of months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075430).