> Teaching is the act of understanding where your audience is in the learning process, and leading/guiding them through that journey in a kind and patient way.

> Teaching is the act of understanding where your audience is in the learning process, and leading/guiding them through that journey in a kind and patient way. But the article is written as instructions for asking questions to non-teachers, and is a flawed but generally decent guide to that. I'm an educator turned software engineer and one of the difficult parts of that transition was learning that I had to stop answering most questions that weren't "worth answering". While I'd love to teach the people answering these questions I don't have the time, it's not my job, and often the ROI is low (many people asking questions don't want to spend the effort needed to learn, they want a problem to be solved for them).