Surely not more condescending than scolding a stranger for the way they express their own internal mental models...

I thoroughly disagree.

I understood with greater clarity and conciseness.

Numbers and models speak clear to me, so theres one data point

I agree that it’s probably not effective, just because most people aren’t that good with math, or don’t think of things in terms of math. But how is it condescending?

It comes off as slightly autistic but the concept is introduced to most people in terms of exactly the notation he used.