The Bible, the periodic table, and the three-act structure all succeed for the same reason: optimized compression architecture.
https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/architecture-vs-content
Architecture vs. Content

Drowning, as we are, in words — billions, in blog posts, tweets, articles, and books published each year — we instinctively believe that what we say matters most. The perfect turn of phrase, the elegant metaphor, the devastating counterargument. But when I recall the most persuasive arguments I've encountered, what lingers isn't always the specific words - it’s their arrangement. The architecture of ideas, not their individual bricks. Consider language models. They generate text by predicting...

@Daojoan this is an awesome read.
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I hesitated to click on this post because of periodic table PTSD. Glad I braved it!
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Sehr kluge Gedanken! Thank you Joan, that was very helpful!


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Thanks for those several illustrations in it.

@Daojoan very understated title, for what turns out to be essential reading for teachers and saboteurs alike

like, having an understanding of how ideas presented form themselves in someone else's brain can lend themselves to ideas told in just the right way that the essentials just stick for pretty much everyone

...or at least enough people they can reasonably cover the gap; you'll know you were successful if they're reteaching the same thing

@Daojoan (or it happens by accident and you analyze the aftermath and make a discovery about cognition, i'm looking at you, subway surfers,,)