A very quick and light reply… I was taught years ago that if you can’t draw it, you don’t really understand it. When we wrote Ship It!, Andy forced us to draw out the concepts and it was the single most clarifying thing we did. Drawing out the concepts in a clear, concise way will hep you clarify what you’re thinking about. It can also be a road map for a chapter like this. If you absolutely can’t find a way to related the topics, then make them clearly segmented subsections, or even separate chapters.
I’m also a big fan of using mind maps for topics like this. They really help me draw out what I’m thinking about so that I can organize it. The wikipedia page is pretty good, and Andy’s Pragmatic Thinking and Learning delves into them too.
And, as was stated above, create simple examples. It’ll be very difficult to do, because it forces you to boil down everything in your head to something bite sized. Andy H. calls that boiling down the broth. You’ve got tons of great ideas, but you can usually only communicate one at a time. Boil it down, even if it takes days, to a concise, understandable example.
Once you’ve done all that, post it back out on the internet and the world tell you where you missed the boat. :) Then iterate.
