Clarity can require leaving out a clever detail you personally enjoy.

The favourite line is often the one doing the most damage. A clever aside, an elegant qualification, a joke that took ages to get right: each pleases whoever made it and asks the reader to carry extra weight for no gain. Attachment to your own cleverness is the usual reason explanations stay muddy. What you enjoy and what communicates are different things.

Go through your next piece of writing or your next talk and take out the part you are proudest of. Read it again without that. If nothing is lost, it was decoration, and you can keep it elsewhere.