A truism about communication

(Image lost: “an off-topic pic­ture to grab atten­tion”, as its cap­tion said.)

I think I’ve writ­ten about this before. But I came across it in my notes and decided to post it, since it won’t fit on Twitter.

If you’re not under­stood, it’s your prob­lem (more pre­cisely, a prob­lem with your com­mu­ni­ca­tion), not the other side’s (the recip­i­ent’s). When your task is to get infor­ma­tion across, it isn’t enough just to pass it on; you also have to make sure it was received and understood.

It’s that simple ;)