Not always a big fan of listicles, but this one ain't bad or click bait in nature.
One of the points I think applies very much to the Bitcoin community.
4.) Always be aware that your expertise in a subject, no matter how deep it runs, is limited. This is one of the most humbling lessons that comes along with any scientific endeavor: after years or even decades of study, even after becoming a world expert in your specific field, you must always recognize that there are going to be others that know more about aspects of your field than you do. There’s always someone who has specialized in aspects of what you do or what you study that has greater expertise than you do, whom you can learn from and gain knowledge from if you’re willing to listen to what they have to say.
It ties to the maxim stay humble and stack sats. The humble part is quite important i think, in any aspect of life.
Some really competent people in our community are tremendously knowledgeable about the economics of it all, or about the technical implementations of a specific LND implementation or node routing dynamics, or about game theory. However, some of these same people conflate that knowledge in their specific field of expertise to other tangentially related other fields where they didn't spend the same amount of time perfecting their skills. And by doing so, show through this lack of humility that some of their ideas are stupid at best, damageable at worst.
As i don't want to cite names inside our community, it's easier to take Taleb or Wolfram as an examples. We can probably all agree that their lack of humility as clearly shown their limits beyond their field of expertise.
It's one of the reason i used to like HN and now like SN, there are very knowledgeable people i can learn a from as i know their expertise beats mine by a factor 1000 in aforementioned examples. It's one of the reasons i also don't like Twitter anymore as the thing that matters most there is how loud one can yell about seed oils and bitcoin etfs.
Not sure where I'm going will all this, just maybe a reminder for myself to check my limitations and listen to what others have to say. Being very liberal in my core beliefs, I've come to question some of those beliefs thanks to reading constructive discussions carried out here on SN.
As Dang always says on HN: always assume the other person is acting in good faith. Give them the benefit of the doubt, which leads to constructive interactions between people. Due to HNs invasion by Reddit users, lots of discussions have unfortunately suffered from his inability to moderate it effectively anymore. Let's hope SN's incentive model achieves better resilience to the negative effects of mainstream adoption. Let's make sure SN builds on strong foundations so that mainstream adoption is beneficial rather than detrimental to our community here.
I'll stop here, typing this on my phone has kept me too long in the bathroom.