Re:Where Do the Failed 0.1% Go? (2015) [pdf]
by ecopoesis on Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:28PM
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This just means you work with good people. Good people of all levels like to help and teach others. Altruism is a key part of a working society.
Unfortunately, being a genius has little to do with being a good person. Given the mad scientist archetype, there may even be a correlation between douchebag and genius.
I'm a decidedly not smart person, but through some good fortune I work with some extremely smart people. I work in aerospace as a technician and many of my coworkers are Engineering/CompSci/Math/Physics people. I frequently pester them with all sorts of questions that to them must be very mundane. Unless they are really good at humoring me, which is entirely possible, I get the feeling that many of them genuinely enjoy explaining things, even when they have to dumb it down, to me.