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 …
You can explain Linux easily. But you cannot explain POSIX API performance details in a simple and fast manner. You have to create a framework to put knowledge in a person. If experts can explain something simply, why we still have universities?