> imagine you're a smart person who is super knowledgeable about something like software engineering, distributed systems and consensus. That's great. But then you make the mistake of thinking because you're really smart and good at this thing you must be smart about something completely different

This is such a bad take that I'll be honest, it makes me angry.

Someone can't be super knowledgeable at more than one discipline? More than two? That's complete nonsense.