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1/ I think it’s somewhere in the middle. I think there’s a bit of an unreality to being thrust into the public spotlight when you were previously just an engineer. Like for myself I know a bunch of people know who I am now and hear what I say, but there’s little perceived actual
2/ tangible experience of this online. It’s weird, and things wind up not feeling too different than they were previously. So it’s easy to feel like you have license to say what’s on your mind and not feel the full ramifications of it. He may very well be arrogant
3/ but my guess is it’s the common smart engineering nerd variety and that’s pretty easy for me to forgive as I can definitely relate to that and am still working on undoing that after all these years. That gets tough when people keep telling you you’re great lol
So your defense of him boils down to giving him a pass at being arrogant because probably he gets to hear too often how great an engineer he is. I respect that, but I really hope you can see how that won't resonate with most people.
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