Simple

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein.

If you read my other posts, you should understand by now how much clear communication means for me. How important it is. If your goal is to be understood, telling exactly what you mean and leaving out all the fluff and fancy words is the way to go.

I'm not saying there is no space for writing to be an art, but that it should only be an art if it is aims for the reader's enjoyment, with conveying a message being something secondary.

The need for simplicity isn't exclusive to written/spoken messages. It should also be a goal for every other form of communication, for example all the formulas, equations and laws used in maths and physics, code for computer programs...

I'll focus on physics now, because it's the subject I'm more comfortable with, but what I'm about to say applies to every other subject. What's the problem with it? It's just a pile of "we know this" that barely anyone understands, inconsistent, full of cheap tricks to make everything work. As long as everything gives the expected results, no one cares about understanding it and improving on it.

This situation is not sustainable. We need outsiders to get into it easily, we need to get young students up to speed a lot faster and we need who's inside to understand what they're doing, so that we don't have rockets randomly exploding every now and then. Basically physics needs a clean up to become Physics: a subject that is easy to understand, in-depth and produces accurate results.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci.

Simplicity is one of the hardest things to archive. It requires people to differentiate accurately what is fundamental and what's not, to understand the topic from inside out. But is also one of the most valuable ones, maybe the most valuable one.

As simple as that. Thanks for reading!

Telepathy - A Link Between Souls

I can't stress enough how important communication and the ability to understand others are for a better society. If you think other people make wrong decisions, you simply don't understand them well enough. And that is problematic.

People get mad with each other. People fight. Wars and crimes... usually happen because someone somewhere misunderstood something. A different tone in a sentence is enough for it to have an whole new meaning.

Because communication is so important, it's crucial to have a communication system which is fault proof, that is, a brain to brain communication channel: a way to read minds directly. To be more concrete: a device that allows one to listen to other's thoughts at will.

It seems weird at first. Not being able to tell lies. Having people knowing about things we're ashamed of... but remember: tabus only happen because people are afraid to talk about them. We hide things because we think other's wouldn't understand. Deep down, we're all the same.

The adaptation period to such devices would be harsh. Traumatic even. But in the end, it would pay off. I'm sure it would. It would put an end to conflicts that cause so much pain and hatred.

While we wait for technology to allow people to resonate with each other, we try our best to understand what others think.

Thank you for trying.