Author here -- I'm glad you like the post! There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet. https://jvns.ca/ h

Author here -- I'm glad you like the post! There are more like you describe out there, though they tend to be scattered around the Internet. https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ often gets mentioned on HN and has a large volume of posts that follow the format "let's assume both you and I don't know anything - how do we figure this out?". http://jamie-wong.com/ http://jamie-wong.com/, a coworker, has a few good ones on graphics/numerical stuff. Characterizing unique IDs with emojis instead of an abstract number was inspired by Tim Babb who has a good blog post on Kalman Filters: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures/ http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures... Explaining a concept in person really helps, as you get immediate feedback if they look confused and it helps you figure out in what order you need to introduce concepts. In the case of this project, I was working on it alongside other people who were working their side projects. So I had the chance to explain what I was working on very frequently as we asked each other what we were up to, but I'm still learning to write this way intentionally.