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2025-04-17

Why jargon?

Some of my posts probably have too much jargon for the average reader of my website.

If I have used a lot of jargon to explain something it usually means either I don't understand it well myself or I haven't prioritised communicating it to others. I generally believe you have understood something well if you can explain it in simple words.

I use this website more to think aloud than to communicate to others, as of today. Inside my head I use a lot of abstraction to find generalisable patterns across situations. Also I lack formal background in many of the fields I read about, there may exist standard jargon that's equivalent to the non-standard jargon I invent.