This isn& #39;t news but bumping up against it today and I& #39;ve worn through my helmet: that while it& #39;s ok for male colleagues in tech to say "i don& #39;t know" (and actually it& #39;s a sign that they& #39;re Good, that they know their limits), when I say "i don& #39;t know" it means I must know nothing.

Today in various conversations, trying to get into the weeds on Bluetooth-based proximity tracking, I& #39;ve gotten:
- an explainer of what a CSV is
- asked if i knew what an API was; and
- "here i will use a word technologists would use"... [THE WORD WAS SCALE].

And these are all lovely well meaning people. And I don& #39;t know most things. But wow is it making me wonder if i know anything, and whether maybe they& #39;re right, that i shouldn& #39;t be engaging in technology discussions at all unless i know *everything* (which, reminder: nobody does).