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Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by ssivark on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:13AM (#22953283)
I find quite funny the irony in the situation. You’ve come to the interesting realization (your tacit knowledge / mental model) that most useful knowledge is tacit. You’ve written an article on this, but that is very much like communicating a mental model — and readers are having a hard time making sense of it, and are therefore denying the message ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You might find interesting the concept of “legibility” as discussed on the Ribbonfarm blog.

Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by shadowsun7 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:43AM (#22953423)
Who says my goal is to convince those who deny the message?

As per Papert, you're either ready to learn something or you aren't. The more people who do not get this, the larger the competitive advantage for those of us who do.

Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018) by ssivark on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:49AM (#22954011)
I never said you’re trying to convince readers; it is simply interesting to observe the impedance mismatch in play, as yet another case study :-)