What’s interesting for me is if the subject is coding the “thinking” is the gaining real world experience, and then I judge what people say through that lens. But I also accept that my real world experience might be bias. Because of the old you need experience in X to get a job in X paradox. So I keep an open mind on any discussion eg is Haskell “better” than say Python or if not having static types is a good thing. I don’t keep opinions on these things just keep the pros and cons in a state of quantum flux in my head.
So it’s complicated and I realise how unable I am to be critical of something in have not done the 10k hours in. Say government policy for example. I also like HN when knowledge people weigh in on such things but then I need to judge how good their thinking is! It’s a tough problem.