frankschmitt.org:

Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar’s Blog “Habitat Chronicles” is full of really excellent insights, not just with regard to building virtual worlds and communities. 

One of my favorites is this piece, called You can’t tell people anything:

What’s going on is that without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don’t have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling them. The things you say often don’t stick, and the few things that do stick are often distorted. Also, most people aren’t very good at visualizing hypotheticals, at imagining what something they haven’t experienced might be like, or even what something they have experienced might be like if it were somewhat different. 

But also check out their entry on how smart people can rationalize very bad ideas and their hilarious dismantling of post-modern literary criticism.