Be Suspicious of People Who Don’t Know They’re Fools

None of us know as much as we think we do.

Credit: N.C. Wyeth via Ladies Home Journal

A few months ago I wrote a short piece called You’re Not as Informed as You Think You Are. It’s about how we think we know the whole world, when in fact, we just know our own extremely tiny corner.

Let’s say you’re a subject matter expert on solid waste disposal here in the…