The Paradox of Perfect Misunderstanding
The deepest miscommunication occurs when both parties understand each other perfectly - but within fundamentally different frameworks of meaning. We mistake shared vocabulary for shared understanding, then wonder why identical words create conflicting realities. Every conversation carries invisible assumptions about timeframes, definitions, and hierarchies. What sounds urgent within a quarterly mindset becomes irrelevant from a decade perspective; what constitutes a 'feature' to one person encompasses three separate problems to another. We argue not over facts but across parallel realities, each constructed from the same language but organised by incompatible mental models.