Your Secret Weapon: You Know What You’re Talking About
Here’s one of the most familiar narratives in science:
We knew that! We’ve been saying that for years! Why didn’t you know that?
It’s the story of a subculture — a scientific field — so insular that it thinks it’s sufficiently communicated a piece of knowledge to the rest of the world, only to discover (after years, maybe even decades) that the rest of the world didn’t get the message at all.…