Sounds to me you became really good at explaining. And skill in explaining stuff is a much better predictor of not-being-a-jerk than mastery of anything in gene

Sounds to me you became really good at explaining. And skill in explaining stuff is a much better predictor of not-being-a-jerk than mastery of anything in general. It's pretty difficult to explain things well and be a jerk at the same time! (although my pope-hat's off to those that manage to do both ;) )