Someone will misunderstand anything visible enough to matter.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Reach and misunderstanding arrive together. Once enough people encounter something, some of them will read it wrongly, and the number grows with the audience. Being misread is a sign of scale rather than of failure.

When a misinterpretation stings, ask whether it is common enough to be worth addressing or just one person’s reading. Fix genuine ambiguities and let the rest go. You cannot write or make anything that no one can misconstrue.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose misunderstanding of your work have you let stop you?

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