{"id":2576,"date":"2010-06-20T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2010-06-20T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T05:21:21","slug":"if-it-sounds-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/06\/20\/if-it-sounds-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"If it sounds complicated\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronsw.com\/weblog\/soundsmart\">Aaron Swartz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do you tell if what someone is saying is smart? Most people\u2019s first instinct is to think that things they can\u2019t understand must be smart\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026this method is exactly backwards. Smart people actually say things that are very simple and easy to understand. And the smarter they are, the more clear what they say is. It\u2019s stupid people who say things that are hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this is because stupid people say things that aren\u2019t true, things that aren\u2019t true don\u2019t make sense, and things that don\u2019t make sense are hard to understand. But you can also look at it from the other end: if you genuinely understand something \u2014 really, truly understand it \u2014 then it doesn\u2019t seem complicated and you can explain it rather simply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Swartz: How do you tell if what someone is saying is smart? Most people\u2019s first instinct is to think that things they can\u2019t understand must be smart\u2026 But\u2026this method is exactly backwards. Smart people actually say things that are very simple and easy to understand. And the smarter they are, the more clear what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}