What Determine’s an Expert?

We experience experts when we first go to school. We learn from our teachers that A comes before B, that 1 comes before 2, and left is the opposite of right.

Then we grow up.

Nowadays, expertise means nothing when everyone’s an expert.

Ever since Al Gore invented the internet, people have been complaining about how everyone thinks they are an expert.

People have become their own travel agents.
People diagnose their own illnesses with online checklists of their symptoms.
Parents weigh in on other people’s parenting choices, glorifying their credentials by stating they are a mom, so they know.

This has been going on forever despite …read more