[lazyasciiart]

> if you are confident, know your shit, it should be very easy to convince less experienced people.

No, it isn't. I am fully aware that I am lacking some kind of ability to champion projects, explain things that seem obvious to me, and convince others, but I am also the absolute subject matter expert, know every piece of this shit and am completely confident in what I'm telling them. That's why it's infuriating to watch blatantly stupid projects with no basis in reality kick off then crash and explode in exactly the way I predicted. It is 100% a communications failure on my part. The confident salesman idiot will win every time.

[andrewmcwatters]

Sometimes you can be an excellent communicator and you're still just working with morons.