There’s a huge gulf between admitting you don’t know something, and being proud of it. Suggesting it was ever, or should be, somehow “shameful” to admit not kn

There’s a huge gulf between admitting you don’t know something, and being proud of it. Suggesting it was ever, or should be, somehow “shameful” to admit not knowing something, is an enemy of change and growth, and in everyday life becomes a recipe for perpetuating structural in-groups and all the systemic pathologies that go along with them. I am also grumpy old fart but I was raised in an engineering culture that was not afraid to ask “what’s a spline?”, and I don’t regret it.