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Mental models Over the years we build up all sorts of mental models of how the world is. One of the ones I have been using recently is that it is relatively easy to speak face to face,...

Mental models Over the years we build up all sorts of mental models of how the world is. One of the ones I have been using recently is that it is relatively easy to speak face to face, notwithstanding shyness, social anxiety and more. Writing is harder, much harder, especially concise writing. Blaise Pascal in 1657 wrote: Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Hardest of all is communicating visually, with images incredibly difficult and other forms of

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