Two cybersecurity professionals argue that asking questions, not assuming you know, is what moves the field forward. Big egos kill knowledge sharing. Speaker B calls asking good questions a superpower. Speaker A takes an Advil before meetings to prepare for asking many.
A lot of people in cyber have a lot of strong, big egos and I know it all and you can't tell me anything I don't know, but have a conversation, reach out, just ask a question. There's no dumb questions. The only dumb question or the dumb thing to do is to not ask a question assuming that it's gonna be something wrong and then you don't input or give something to the greater good because you had a great question, great idea, but you never said anything 'cause you felt—
Yeah, I feel like on a personal note, Questions actually are a superpower. Being able to ask good questions, to be able to elicit information in a way that doesn't alienate someone, that's a, that's a huge skill set.
Sometimes I take an Advil before I, before meeting for the shoulder. Question, question, question. Just to prepare myself because I'm gonna ask a lot of questions.
