> you’re not inside their head and don’t understand what they see and feel. This is also information worth communicating. The newcomer to the project is expec

> you’re not inside their head and don’t understand what they see and feel. This is also information worth communicating. The newcomer to the project is expected to be ignorant of the problems and the mental set of those addressing them, in any reasonable setting. To confess your own ignorance and declare your readiness to learn in that situation is better, I think, than to pretend knowledge you do not actually posses. "Just do this?" questions are re-phrasable as "Would this work?" questions, if the language environment is prickly.