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You used the word "just" in both replies. It's a word that often comes up when a new way of thinking or a new angle may be discussed. But "just" is almost alway

You used the word "just" in both replies. It's a word that often comes up when a new way of thinking or a new angle may be discussed. But "just" is almost always that word which demands that past understanding be brought forward. It will block new insight. (It is a great word for communicating, "if it's not simple to understand, and if it's even this inscrutable, then how can it be true" which is a kind of fantasy-fallacy.) If you have a question about new information, and if it's out of legit interest, it's better to stay away from "just" unless you are firmly on the side of life being mansplainably simple in any given case. At this point it's too weird to go into the rest though, as if to convince you that I have great ideas. I'm not exactly some kind of employment wizard and I'm not writing for an audience. "Leaking leverage" ought to be metaphorically simple enough to puzzle out with some interest in the problem...

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jrochkind1 5y ago
You can eliminate the word "just" from my sentence, I agree it makes it a stronger sentence, thanks for the edit. You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right, but I feel foolish for trying to understand now.
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  > You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right Okay, that's quite a projection. I think it's better to admit that this is your assumption, maybe even informationally based on someone saying they aren't writing for an audience. This layer of interpretation carrying some emotive personal confirmation is getting in your own way. You feel pain, emotional suffering, look I'm doing my best but this whole topic was derailed by trying to take the original comment off into a single, assumptive concrete example way too fast. IMO you are also writing for yourself here whether you know it or not. Read it over. Better to embrace that aspect. It may be a new and frustrating type of discussion for you, I get that. If you stay with the abstractions, build up from there without assumptions, I don't think this would be an issue.

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jrochkind1 5y ago

You can eliminate the word "just" from my sentence, I agree it makes it a stronger sentence, thanks for the edit. You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right, but I feel foolish for trying to understand now.

themodelplumber 5y ago
> You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right Okay, that's quite a projection. I think it's better to admit that this is your assumption, maybe even informationally based on someone saying they aren't writing for an audience. This layer of interpretation carrying some emotive personal confirmation is getting in your own way. You feel pain, emotional suffering, look I'm doing my best but this whole topic was derailed by trying to take the original comment off into a single, assumptive concrete example way too fast. IMO you are also writing for yourself here whether you know it or not. Read it over. Better to embrace that aspect. It may be a new and frustrating type of discussion for you, I get that. If you stay with the abstractions, build up from there without assumptions, I don't think this would be an issue.