Sometimes Playing Dumb Makes Things Work Better
http://www.geoff-hart.com/resources/2000/playdumb.htm

Hart, Geoffrey J.S.
Geoff-Hart.com
2000

Abstract:

I've learned how to forget for a period of time that I know almost as much as my authors about their subject, and this lets me play dumb and trip over things that the author's peers and I could both figure out with a little work--or a lot of work, occasionally. Once I understand why I tripped over a particular wording, I can figure out how to fix it so that nobody else, even if they really were as idiotic as I sometimes pretend to be.