Whad-d-I-Do?

by Godfrey J. Ellis

This cartoon illustrates a concept used by Joe Miller called the Curse of Knowledge. He makes the point that we don’t always know what we know and tells the story of trying to teach his son how to drive a car. The lesson assumed his son knew things that he didn’t yet know and almost resulted in an accident.

I didn’t keep early drafts of many of these cartoons, but I happened to have a couple of early drafts of this one: