> “The devil is in the details,” they say. And so is the beauty, the thinking, the “but …”. Maybe that’s why the phrase “elevator pitch” gives me a shiver.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately.

For me, the meaning lies in the mental models. How I relate to the new thing, how it fits in with other things I know about. So the elevator pitch is the part that has the _most_ meaning. It changes the trajectory of if I engage and how. Then I'll dig in.

I'm still working to understand the headspace of those like OP. It's not a fixation on precision or correctness I think, just a reverse prioritization of how information is assimilated. It's like the meaning is discerned in the process of the reasoning first, not necessarily the outcome.

All my relationships will be the better for it if I can figure out the right mental models for this kind of translation between communication styles.