Have you heard of the "curse of knowledge?" It sounds conceited, like "Poor me, cursed with all this knowledge."
It just means that sometimes we forget what other people don't know, or what it's like not to understand something. 1/
It just means that sometimes we forget what other people don't know, or what it's like not to understand something. 1/
A great remedy for the curse of knowledge as it relates to writing code is answering questions on #stackoverflow. It forces you to figure out what concepts someone doesn't know and relate to them so you can explain them. 2/
That's an opportunity. We all learn differently. This means you're communicating with someone who, for whatever reason, has gotten to a certain point without picking up that concept. Why don't they know it? It could be that everything they've read assumed they already did. 3/
So now it's your chance to fill in that gap. Nothing reinforces a concept like explaining it.
Lots of times we know something, but not quite enough to explain it. So in order to help someone else, we end up learning what we thought we already knew. 4/4
Lots of times we know something, but not quite enough to explain it. So in order to help someone else, we end up learning what we thought we already knew. 4/4
