Explain Like I'm 50
ELI5.0 is better than ELI5, Metcalfe’s La, Inventor of Aspirin and Heroin…
In this week’s newsletter: I share why ELI5.0 is better than ELI5, Metcalfe’s La, Inventor of Aspirin and Heroin…
gm 👋 Prado here
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Essay of the week - ELI5.0
This week I’m handling storytelling and documenting the entire Polygon’s HackerHouse for 9 days in Bangalore. That’s why I’m writing a small essay :) thanks for understanding.
Okay! what do I mean by Explain like I’m 50 and why do I believe it’ll be the new ELI5
If you think about it, you can’t really explain complex stuff to a 5-year-old, but you can do the same to a 50-year-old. The only thing that lacks is context.
I know you are probably going back to this quote by Albert Einstein “If you can't explain it to a five-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.”
But in this conversation, I’m talking about the person who’s listening and not the person who’s listening.
The only difference between a 5 year old and a 50 year old is that you can ask them questions.
Let’s take a scenario:
I want to explain “what is Web3” to a 50 year old. I can start the conversation by asking him questions like -
“Do you what is Facebook and do you understand how it is centralised?” The answer can be yes for both or yes for one thing (which is Facebook) and no for understanding the centralised world.
Now my job just got easy. I just have to ask a few more questions and explain it easily.
But in the case of a 5-year-old, I can’t ask questions.
Conclusion: When you are explaining something to someone, start with questions.
If they don’t understand the question or the topic at all, then it’s probably going to take a long time to explain the whole thing to them.
10 Interesting things for you 🙌
1. Got to know about this in a session
2. Something from my Twitter👇
3. Name something more magical than mushroom music, I’ll wait. 🍄🙏🏼✨ 📹: Tarun Nayar, modernbiologie (watch)
4. Easy way to add tokens to your wallet (Blog)
5. Interesting Human of the week:- The same person invented Aspirin and heroin…11 days apart 🤯
6. Question of the week:- Milk first or cereal?
7. Picture of the week:- A zeptosecond is a unit of time equal to 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 seconds, that is, 10⁻²¹ seconds: it's the smallest sliver of time yet measured and corresponds to the amount of time it takes for the electron to be ejected after the photon strike
8. Current read: Just worked the whole week. Couldn’t read much. Suggest me something.
9. Meme of the week:- We got bored and we ended up doing some DeGents shit.
10. Quote of the week:
"I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea." - Franz Kafka
(Tweet this quote)"Some cause happiness wherever they go, others cause happiness whenever they go." Oscar Wilde.
(Tweet this quote)“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” - Elbert Hubbard
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