As a meta-comment, it's interesting to me that this is so highly upvoted and responded to here on hacker news. As a consultant I often find that clients who are

As a meta-comment, it's interesting to me that this is so highly upvoted and responded to here on hacker news. As a consultant I often find that clients who are brilliant experts in their own field often assume themselves to be experts in _every_ domain, including my own area of expertise which is software design and development.