[kschults]

If she's not a technical person, that's on about the right level. It's probably done up a little for the sake of making it slightly more interesting to read, but I could imagine a conversation between a very technical person and somebody who knows next to nothing going very much along those lines. And even if it is a little oversimplified, it gets the point across very well.

[frossie]

I realise it's off-topic (and I am somewhat cranky), but it's not the level of the explanation that is the problem - it's the way it seems to be addressed to a 7 year old ("He's smart!", "It's amazing").

As an adult, I personally would prefer if you explained something to me and let me be the judge of how smart and amazing everybody is.

[defunkt]

He's smart! and It's amazing is just how Ryan talks. He's extremely energetic and really fun to have technical discussions with because of it.

[cschep]

But if you clearly don't have the domain knowledge required to make those judgements it really can be helpful.

I don't know anything about wine, and I really appreciate being told, "this is made my ____, they are super famous for ____".

then I can judge if I like it or not, regardless of how famous/old it is.

I also really like hearing other people's opinions and interacting with their excitement over "their thing" so ... to each their own I suppose.