differences in communication around learning
The way I grew up, shit was "if you don't understand it then it's your responsibility to figure it out yourself"
And that's how it continued when I got into tech - the "go fucking google it yourself, loser" attitude. The "get good or fuck off you're not good enough to learn this" attitude. The "you have to prove you're worth my time to answer your questions" shit.
And in the past few years I've been encountering people who have some actual empathy and understanding for their audience, so it becomes a lot more of a "hey let's learn together" experience. Something collaborative.
I really like that, and I wish that the people in my past had taken the same approach.
differences in communication around learning
There's also an approach that you might see as in-between or as significantly different from both: it's your responsibility to learn, but mine to answer any questions you might have, for as long as it takes to do so.
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Then I think I phrased it poorly. Alternative phrasing: satisfying curiosity is the most important thing ever. (And maybe it's essentially equivalent to what you said now?)
re: differences in communication around learning
It's a perspective thing; there's no wrong answers.
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@robryk
I don't like that perspective because it shapes everything like an obligation.
Instead, I'd prefer to view it as, so long as you're willing to try to understand the subject, I want to apply my efforts towards finding ways to connect my body of knowledge to yours.