One lesson from design is that there’s no downside to focusing on maximum accessibility. If a website or a kitchen utensil is easier for someone with a disability to use, benefits, many unconsidered, will carry over to everyone else.

This concept also applies to ideas.

The reason to focus on making your idea translate to the hardest-to-reach person isn’t necessarily because you need to reach that person. It’s because the process will strengthen your communication of the idea to everyone else. It will probably even strengthen the idea itself.

Richard Feynman, genius physics lecturer and the subject of many of my most gratifying YouTube spelunks, said that if you can’t explain something in simple terms to a freshman (or better yet, a sixth grader), you don’t understand it yourself.

This also applies to ideas core to identity: our seemingly disparate understandings of morality, right and wrong.

Sometimes, there is something irreconcilable at the root of our disagreements, but often, it’s mostly a lack of understanding.

The whole culture could benefit from expressing our feelings, positions, and beliefs on hard mode, with the intent of reaching the least reachable.

Not because they “deserve” it, not to succeed/change them, but because it helps us reach EVERYONE better and grow in understanding.