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Piece of feedback I recently spotted in the wild, paraphrased:

You should have done X. X is easy to do.

It’s only easy once you know how to do it!

It reminded me of a tweet from @jessamyn about helping someone with a piece of technology: “Simple stuff, hard if you don’t know it” and her post on Phil Agre’s 1996 advice on helping others to learn computers: librarian.net/stax/4965/how-to

www.librarian.netHow to Help Someone Use a Computer by Phil Agre – librarian.net