Complicated thing is simply a large enough chain of simple things.

 

Simple explanation is not simplification, or reduction.

Simple explanation is one that leads one smoothly through each part of the chain.

 

People who can’t explain simply don’t truly understand the subject. Their chain of understanding is incomplete.

 

One can always collect bits and pieces of a vast body of knowledge – then pass up as an expert.

One can collect at random various parts of the chain, put them together – and pass it up as *understanding*.

 

What most people call “understanding” is but a loosely connected collection of hearsays. They can barely implement it and hardly explain it – for the chain is fragmented.

 

For the chain of understanding to be complete – it must be explored individually. There is no skipping any step, any links in this chain.

 

Anecdotes are an amusing pastime.

But your greed of knowledge makes you delusional.

If you can’t explain it – you don’t understand it. Period. Your chain is missing links.

 

We get into this habit of operating on unsubstantiated information, on collective beliefs.

If you are serious — get your own information. Build your own chains. Slowly, meticulously. Step by step, from ground zero. By YOURSELF.

Better to discover a few verities then to harbour the vastest collection of useless nonsense – useless conclusions, useless hearsays, broken chains…