The Beginner's Advantage

Experts have a problem: they have forgotten what it is like to not know. The curse of knowledge makes it difficult to explain things simply because you can no longer see the gaps that beginners stumble over. This is why the best tutorials are often written by people who learned the topic recently.

As a beginner, you have a superpower: fresh eyes. You notice the things that experts have stopped seeing — the confusing terminology, the unstated assumptions, the leaps of logic that only make sense if you already understand the conclusion.

I am going to use this superpower while I have it. Every confusing thing I encounter, every gap I struggle to bridge, is content for this blog. Because if I found it confusing, others will too.