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I have grown in confidence over 20 years not by building capabilities but realizing that everyone else is guessing just as much as I am. And I'm at least an above-average guesser in my field of "expertise".

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Knowing how to ask intelligent questions is the hallmark of a successful bluffer. Out your comrades lack of knowledge by exposing your own as a very clever question

This helped me in quite a few interviews, and I'm only 39yo. Thanks for putting it in a clear, logic and fun way. My brain had guessed the basic mechanism, but hadn't formulated it in words yet.

For that, I humbly concede you the title of my "BS Master".

Oh yeah, fearless question asking is so much more valuable than knowing everything.

I'm going insane over this because recruiters will act as if only noblest prizes are allowed in their companies.

I sincerely do not know if I should: ingest all Knuth, Sedgewick, Cormen, Ulam, Lorenz, VonNeumann, Fermi and Gauss entire scribings[0]

or if I should just lie, make bold claims and ask for 1.5x the usual salary.

[0] I have them on disk.. you can guess what path I picked for now.

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