my former roommate liked to explain things in a way that my brain just couldn’t hang onto i’m an end beginning middle person he always went in order when he tried to explain something and questions were met with “i’m getting to that” inevitably i would have forgotten most of the steps by the time he got to the end result   show me the goal show me what i have to work with then show me how to do it if i haven’t already concocted a zany way to do it myself if you clutter up my brain with lots of information about all of these bits and bobs and their ins and outs and how to work them and in what order by the time i understand why you just told me all of that the information will have fallen out of my brain you haven’t given me a mental category a heading a purpose an application a file label a context what am i trying to achieve why these particular tasks in this particular order what happens if i do them out of order if i do one wrong do i have to restart the whole chain how does each task effect the end product can i use these tasks or concepts for something else