Nintendo .DS_StoreI really wish the dominant ethos of expository materials was less "here's why topic X is actually super simple" and more of "you—yes, you!—are capable of understanding difficult things"
Mark Dominus@sliminality I tried really hard for this when I wrote Higher-Order Perl. “This is easy” seems like a funny thing to say about anything? I think “easy” and “difficult” don't work that way, most of the time. What some people find difficult, like calculus or being courteous, can be easy for others.
There are exceptions, of course. I don't object to describing NP-hard problems as hard. Or running a functional democracy.