I'm having this exact same problem with a colleague at the moment and my root cause analysis is that he's not making the right judgement about the knowledge lev

I'm having this exact same problem with a colleague at the moment and my root cause analysis is that he's not making the right judgement about the knowledge level of the other conversation participants. I would suggest trying to a) listen and b) gauge the level of experience of the other guys in the conversation. If they have 'doing' knowledge that automatically trumps your 'I read on the internet' knowledge so, yknow, silence is golden - everyone has access to google...