# §Demystification and Thought Leaders * [[Demystification involves a lot of context]] * [[Making a thing legible puts it at risk of social destruction]] * [[Creating tight problem definitions is valuable]] * [[Intellectual rent seeking]] * [[Full-time thought leaders try to become gatekeepers to knowledge]] * [[Professional thought leaders are incentivized to mystify things]] * [[Demystification is showing the world for the way it is]] * [[Business and science writing should be demystifying]] * [[Conversations are better at demystifying than written material]] * [[Jargon is mystifying to people without the relevant context]] * [[Explain it like I’m Five]] * [[Making things more mystifying is way to hold on to power]] * [[Paul Graham’s essays are powerful because they demystify things]] * [[Being mystifying is a way to hedge]] * [[Legibility enables action]] * [[Staying at the top of the ladder of abstraction is mystifying]] * [[Great thinkers and writers and communicators demystify things]] * [[It takes bravery to demystify things]] This is a heavy systems thinking framework [[Systems Thinking and Story Thinking]] because it assumes that everything can be explained and has constituent pieces. <!-- #index --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/§Demystification+and+Thought+Leaders) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/§Demystification+and+Thought+Leaders)