[justonceokay]

Reading the Tao te Ching makes it clear why the best engineers are the soft-spoken individuals who refrain from talking until the end of the meeting.

[agumonkey]

Are they delaying to listen and have more information or out of politeness to keep others ego unharmed even though he knew the answer beforehand ?

[retrocog]

That’s because good engineering is mostly listening to the system.

If you talk too early, you end up arguing abstractions. If you listen long enough, the constraints introduce themselves.

By the end of the meeting, the quiet person isn’t trying to win the room — they’re just reporting what reality already said.

[ProllyInfamous]

>"If you listen long enough, the constraints introduce themselves."

This could be a line from [the non-existant] Tao #82.