There’s a phrase I haven’t heard in about forever unless I’m the one saying it: “passing a giggle test”. If you can’t describe the thing you did with a straight face, you should take it back and keep working in it until you can.

It’s so easy for things to get away from us by increments, and the longer we sit with something the harder a time we have predicting the reaction of people who have just seen it for the first time.