> the dishwasher is ready to be run This might be difficult if he actually doesn’t understand when the dishwasher is ready to be run. As you say there are sol

> the dishwasher is ready to be run This might be difficult if he actually doesn’t understand when the dishwasher is ready to be run. As you say there are solutions accommodating both viewpoints, but it requires either good communication, so one side’s “expertise” is conveyed and internalized by the other. Or both sides being competent enough at all the parts involved in the discussion, but for that they’d need to take turns doing the task so they both have the same understanding of the situation (it also gives more credibility to each other’s claims). The article author choosing to put 100% of the efforts on the communication part was pretty convincing.