Every explanation is wrong somewhere.

1. 1

   Most explanations start in the wrong place

   They start with the details, because the details are what experts find interesting. But you can’t hang a detail on anything until you have the rough shape of the idea. So we start with the rough shape and stop there, mostly.

2. 2

   Simple first, right later

   A good simple explanation is like a map of a city on a napkin. It leaves out almost everything, and it still gets you to the station. Once you know where the station is, the real map makes a lot more sense.

3. 3

   The bit we left out

   Simplifying means cutting corners, and we’d rather show you which ones. Every episode ends with What we left out: the caveats, the exceptions and the parts an expert would wince at, so you know where to dig next.

See it in action: Inflation, explained way too simply