I totally agree. The amount of times I’ve been able to craft a more insightful question about someone’s culture or work because of something I’d read prior has

I totally agree. The amount of times I’ve been able to craft a more insightful question about someone’s culture or work because of something I’d read prior has almost certainly got to be up there. And the amount of the times I’ve been able to produce interesting insight on a topic as well. It seems odd to treat people differently based on what you vs they know, with the exception of maybe I’d be concerned if say my heart doctor didn’t know about arteries or something.