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Sometimes interesting stories or explanations one reads about then wishes to convey to someone else may require more than a few minutes to convey. It seems that
by RingwormOne 9y ago
Sometimes interesting stories or explanations one reads about then wishes to convey to someone else may require more than a few minutes to convey. It seems that was the case here.
It's not a matter of arrogance, pseudo-intellectualism or anything else. It's a matter of wanting to share interesting things one knows.
- zazen 9y agoI think this varies massively between different situations. There are definitely good motives for sharing facts, and there are definitely bad motives for sharing facts. It is _sometimes_ a matter of arrogance and pretend intellectualism. Probably most of us have worked at a place where "that guy" was always trying to show off his knowledge. I got the impression that this was one of those times, but I could be wrong easily enough, and I've apologized to the original commenter in a cousin comment. The phrase "I explained about longitude" paints a very different picture in my head to "I told my friends about this great book about longitude", but maybe that's just me.