While I understand the significance, I find these nuances exhausting. As a senior experienced engineer I am also supposed to provide guidance and show some authority, especially in design meetings and code reviews. Being too humble comes off as lacking knowledge and confidence and people question (not ask) whether you really are a senior engineer. But the moment you try to show some strong opinions and authority, people get put off.
I don’t think it’s totally unrelated, but I don’t think that’s really what the article was about.
The main point was that good faith questions come from a place of curiosity, whereas bad faith questions belong on the battlefield… Even if people try to pass their bad faith questions as curiosity.
