This is true of a lot of trades. Music and writing. Do not let people in on your work, unless they're privy and trusted. It is hard for average people get exc

This is true of a lot of trades. Music and writing. Do not let people in on your work, unless they're privy and trusted. It is hard for average people get excited about your intentions, if it isn't presented properly. In fact, it is all about presentation. Look at the average response to the awesome explosions in Transformers. It would take more words to describe the functions of Notepad than to describe what is going on in the too long eye-candy scenes of that movie. Hell, look at the bible. Why do we need long parables to describe simple ideas? From This is the Dreamtime blog post by Robin Hanson (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time...): We were built to be influenced by the rhetoric, eloquence, difficulty, drama, and repetition of arguments, not just their logic. Perhaps this once helped us to ally us with high status folks. And we were built to show our ideals via the stories we like, and also to like well-crafted stories. But today we are exposed to arguments and stories by folks far more expert than found in ancestral tribes. Since we are built to be quite awed and persuaded by such displays, our beliefs and ideals are highly influenced by our writers and story-tellers. And these folks in turn tell us what we want to hear, or what their patrons want us to hear, neither of which need have much to do with reality.