[pfkurtz]

Lol. Read my first line.

I'm a software engineer posting on Hacker news. I know how to learn a skill.

This is something else, that you can have, if you read lots of books and learn more languages.

Becoming smart is, in part, about being exposed to lots of others thoughts, and lots of facts, and discussing those things and thinking through them yourself.

[mattlondon]

I think you are conflating knowledge with being "smart"/intelligent.

One does not beget the other.

[pfkurtz]

Not even close.