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The Pyramid Principle
Lead with the answer; the reasons hang beneath it, not before it.
Lead with the answer; the reasons hang beneath it, not before it. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- Abstraction
- The Curse of Knowledge
- The Ladder of Abstraction
- Question Behind the Question
- Show, Don't Tell
- Common Ground
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