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She lost me on this particular quote:

>> I can explain that a hosted Javascript application is vulnerable to a deep structural attack better than any of them — I explain things for a living.

Doing something for a living doesn't necessarily imply that you're good at it.

Conversely, not doing something for a living (i.e., "explaining things") doesn't mean you're not good at it either.

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"Explaining" things that they don't understand is a hallmark of journalists, especially the so-called professional ones. Their knowledge of firearms, to take a really long-running example, was apparently acquired by watching made for TV movies.

One of my biggest takeaways from biz school (sadly, that should destroy all of my credibility here) was something a professor told my class.

"You'll find that anyone who calls themselves an expert at anything probably read a couple of really good articles".

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