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# Persuading A specialisation of communicating-in-writing for making genuine value visible. Medium freedom: follow **extract → frame → express** in order — skipping extraction and going straight to expression is the most common cause of value communication that fails — but adapt each phase's depth to the mode and context. ## Why value communication fails Three systematic miscalibrations. They are calibration problems, not character flaws; the methodology corrects them structurally: - **Curse of knowledge** — experts skip context, assume shared vocabulary, and abstract where they should concretise, mistaking their own fluency for the subject's simplicity. - **Visibility gap** — people underinvest in making their value visible, then overestimate how apparent it already is. Excellent work does not advertise itself. - **Empathy gap** — self-promoters overestimate positive reactions and underestimate negative ones, producing either silence or miscalibrated noise. ## Modes - **Preparation** — dialogue with a user preparing a pitch or positioning decision; gather subject, audience, goal, and context through conversation. Output: a positioning strategy — the value, the frame, talking points. - **Review** — diagnosing existing content. Audit it against the three phases before revising: which does it fail, and why? Fix root causes, not surface symptoms. Audience and goal must still be established. - **Agent** — producing persuasive content autonomously from a brief; subject, audi