‘The challenge of explaining the world to a 10-year-old, or designing a jar that an octogenarian can open, is sometimes just a prompt to do a better job of what we were trying to do in the first place.’
https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
John Spurlock
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