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I realise it's off-topic (and I am somewhat cranky), but it's not the level of the explanation that is the problem - it's the way it seems to be addressed to a 7 year old ("He's smart!", "It's amazing").

As an adult, I personally would prefer if you explained something to me and let me be the judge of how smart and amazing everybody is.



He's smart! and It's amazing is just how Ryan talks. He's extremely energetic and really fun to have technical discussions with because of it.


But if you clearly don't have the domain knowledge required to make those judgements it really can be helpful.

I don't know anything about wine, and I really appreciate being told, "this is made my ____, they are super famous for ____".

then I can judge if I like it or not, regardless of how famous/old it is.

I also really like hearing other people's opinions and interacting with their excitement over "their thing" so ... to each their own I suppose.




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