[spicytunacone]

These are a lot of the things I would want to say if I had near any authority on the topic.

>Participate in discussions instead of just listening. If you are wrong, then you learned something at least.

I feel being a part of the discourse is especially important and is still something I'm learning to do. There are a few times I wanted to contribute but believed what I had to say was already obvious to everyone else or to at least the people with more expertise and it turned out not being the case. Still, consider choosing your fights and

>Leave if the environment will never respect you anyways.