one thing I noticed about just about any industry, and this is not gender-related, is a tendency to live in a bubble and to expect that other people live in thi

one thing I noticed about just about any industry, and this is not gender-related, is a tendency to live in a bubble and to expect that other people live in this same bubble and speak the same particular bubblese language. I recall my high-school math teacher was very methodical, but even he "cruised over a few points" or wasn't completely explicit about all the mechanics of a given transformation/equation/formula, or perhaps wasn't clear about what the desired product was of the particular set of manipulations we were studying. It's all fine and good if YOU understand what you are explaining, or of a couple top students can follow you and nod, but perhaps the bulk of the class isn't getting it, and it would be extremely helpful for someone to stand up and say exactly what this author said "I don't understand" as this would provoke the necessary review and examination of the subject in question. I think that closed cultures can be more welcoming of outsiders by being willing to re-examine the basics often. too often we scorn basic questions that would also be helpful in determining areas for future optimizations, or would provoke the needed work to overcome pain points. For example: inventions and optimizations often come from naive outsider questions applied to "solved known done finished" problems