> By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve Nothing about that definition tells us anything about the variance. It could be impercept

> By definition half the population will have opinions ahead of curve Nothing about that definition tells us anything about the variance. It could be imperceptibly small. > Unless OP is brash or arrogant when sharing ideas with the team/management, there is not much to attribute to having a big ego here The OP just claimed to be ahead of the curve, to the team of people reading it on HN. I say that's pretty brash and arrogant. > having opinions about the direction would suggest OP is a good engineer/developer/leader/whatever. Opinions, which are common, are not strong evidence of quality (in my opinion)