How to be clear
Being clear is the ability to convey to an external audience a deeply-held conviction that leaves no doubt on one’s conviction.
One method is to reduce friction between what is thought, done, and said, or what I’ll would term as the “clarity stack”. There should be an almost absolute alignment between all layers in the clarity stack.
To align the clarity stack is to simplify one’s thoughts to a few overarching principles. If there are more than a few principles, constantly reduce those principles until there is just a handful. The more principles there are, the harder it is to maintain the alignment in the clarity stack.
Alignment in the clarity stack demands discipline. This discipline manifests in different ways; in the near perfect alignment one needs, in the courage to push back an external audience if it runs counter to one’s principles, in the process needed to distill constantly one’s principles.
