/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2540818
Feynman is a fucking hero of mine, an ultrachad, and one of the main reasons I went into electrical engineering. His book on quantum electrodynamics has a permanent spot in my nightstand drawer.

He (and Einstein, iirc) said that if you could explain a topic to a peer, you could claim to understand it, and that if you could explain it to a child in terms they could understand, you could claim to have mastered it.

Every time I answer a question here I start from the assumption that the other person is a newbie and I find some little gap in my knowledge to fill in every time in the process of giving a thorough answer.

So when I see "experts" or people that claim that "they just went and learned it on their own" who can't explain anything and are going well out of their way to defend strangers on the internet that also can't explain things, I'm reasonably skeptical that they actually know anything at all. They haven't proven it in any way whatsoever!

And that's not even touching on the absurd inefficiency of having thousands of popular users in the hobby who DEFINITELY know their shit and do things all the time that prove that they know the fundamentals flawlessly, yet they don't ever explain anything from first principles. They pump out 10-minute YT videos that lead you down a 2-hour rabbit hole that may not even tell you what you wanted to know in the first place.

They could save a LOT of people hours of suffering if they just spent a little bit of time conveying what they know in more accessible and rational ways.