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When I began in STEM, I thought, foolishly, that developing deep expertise in a subject would also, naturally, lead to an ability to better explain the field.


This was foolish, of course, because what actually happens is, as a person's knowledge of a field becomes deeper, they begin to lose their sense of context, and so don't know what kind of background information to provide versus what to skip over.

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When I began in STEM, I thought, foolishly, that developing deep expertise in a subject would also, naturally, lead to an ability to better explain the field.

This was foolish, of course, because what actually happens is, as a person's knowledge of a field becomes deeper, they begin to lose their sense of context, and so don't know what kind of background information to provide versus what to skip over.