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Cory Doctorow on Nostr: One of the best ways to evaluate your own understanding of a subject is to attempt to ...
One of the best ways to evaluate your own understanding of a subject is to attempt to explain it to someone else. Through explaining things, we discover how much of the "totally obvious" world is actually full of ambiguity, mystery and contradiction.
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