Explain anything to a smart friend
Explain {topic} to me the way you'd explain it to a smart friend who's not in your field — curious, capable, but starting from zero on this specific thing. Rules: - Start with the one idea everything else hangs off. Build up from there. - Use one concrete analogy, and immediately say where the analogy breaks. - No jargon without defining it in-line the first time. - Include the thing people usually get wrong about this. - End with a 2-sentence 'so what' — why it matters. Depth: {a 2-min read / a proper deep dive}
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'Smart friend' is the sweet spot between condescending ('explain like I'm 5') and impenetrable (a textbook). The 'say where the analogy breaks' rule is what makes the explanation trustworthy — every analogy leaks, and naming the leak prevents you from over-extending it. 'The thing people get wrong' pre-empts the misconception you were about to form. Set depth explicitly or you'll get a length the model guessed at.
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