Thank you very much for writing this. I needed this.
I recently joined a new workplace and realized that everyone around me were talking too much for asking simple questions, questions which would normally require a sentence or two.
My previous workplace was small "startup" company around 20 employees, where questions in conversations were simple and straight to the point.
This is inconstrast to my new workplace which is a big corporate company with a few thousand employees. I honestly felt a little stupid the first few weeks.
Unfortunately, my take away from reading this, is to turn my child like questions into more adult like, to fit into the corporate culture.