And yet somehow the world’s richest man and a world renowned journalist, both arguably fluent in English, can’t communicate with each other. https://www.theverg

And yet somehow the world’s richest man and a world renowned journalist, both arguably fluent in English, can’t communicate with each other. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/10/23678105/elon-musk-substack-notes-battle-matt-taibbi https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/10/23678105/elon-musk-substa... The core of the problem lies with your expectation that just being fluent in English is sufficient to not have miscommunication. Communication is a lot more involved and something as trivial as not having a good night’s sleep can take your attention away from what others are saying. Written communication helps because you can read something back quickly if you skipped over something or were not paying attention.