A lot of my writing is fueled by my frustrations trying to learn things, like "Wait, all that impenetrable jargon and THAT'S all you were trying to say? Why didn't you just SAY SO?". So I try to make the explanation I wish I'd found.
I'm also really motivated by seeing other people having a hard time learning something. Often I look at the resources a friend is using and it'll be so clear that it's not a helpful explanation for them
I have a lot of confidence in my ability to understand things so if an explanation doesn't make sense to me I'm pretty quick to conclude "well obviously the problem is with the explanation, not with ME" (though obviously this approach doesn't always work out for me haha)
I have the same "the explanation is the problem" attitude towards my own writing -- if I explained something and it doesn't make sense to someone, there's often something I can improve
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