20/10/2024
It's funny how dumb we can be as 'experts'.
Most don't remember which were the hard things to learn, or how they were hard to learn.
This often results in the simplest lessons being completely obscured by expected knowledge that we couldn't possibly have.
Breaking these dumb boundaries often takes weeks or months, from what could have been settled with a single sentence.
Many believe that if they know something someone else doesn't, then that person doesn't know anything that they don't.
Most will absolutely believe that you know nothing, when they have less experience than you but they worked a higher profile job and remember some silly big company's official procedures and deify them.
Even worse when you don't know their terminology, where you can know the thing 10 times better and still be sent to the kiddies corner.
But everyone has something to teach you, everyone knows something you don't, even if partial/incomplete, using logical language to describe, without knowing that it conflicts with your terminology.
Look closer, inform and correct them of the terminology.
I've not seen anything as consistent in human ignorance as people arguing as though someone knew their terminology when they clearly didn't and were just using the words that are required to use rationally to describe a process; words that your field shouldn't have repurposed like that anyway, unless ready to make it atleast a little obvious.
Don't gatekeep with these false little power-grabs - communication and education should come first.