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Curse of Knowledge

The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive bias in which people with expertise find it difficult to imagine what it is like to lack that expertise. Once you know something, it's very hard to remember what it was like not to know it. This creates systematic failures in communication: experts design products, write documentation, and give presentations that are incomprehensible to novices because they cannot accurately model the novice's perspective.