1,000,000% this. If a senior engineer can’t explain it to you in a way you understand - even if you are a lot less experienced - that’s THEIR deficiency. Not yours. When this happens, it means THEY actually don’t understand it well enough.https://twitter.com/noahsussman/status/1170870234066165760 …
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One more thing: it indeed takes two to communicate! But when there’s a power imbalance present - such as always accompanies an experience gap - the onus is on higher-power person to make sure they’re adapting to their partner.
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Yep, the number of times I've tried to figure out a communication gap (each using a different definition for a word) and the other party refuses to explain what definition they are using for a word and try to call me dumb for not knowing the definition they intended.
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