Why Experts Become Idiots

Your intelligence gets pulled toward your audience's level. It's physics, not philosophy.

There’s a pattern I keep seeing that nobody talks about.

Expert becomes thought leader. Thought leader becomes influencer.

Influencer becomes an idiot.

It happens so gradually that they never notice. But I’ve figured out the mechanism, and it’s terrifying.

Midjourney/prompt: “A blue wall with a window, in the middle of ocean waves, a boy inside looking out…