I’ve been trying to change my impulse to think “this person is an idiot!” into “this person is a noob,” because the term still kinda has that slightly useful predictive meaning that suggests incompetence, but it also contains the idea that they have the potential to get better, rather than being inherently incompetent.
I’ve been trying to change my impulse to think “this person is an idiot!” into “this person is a noob,” because the term still kinda has that slightly useful predictive meaning that suggests incompetence, but it also contains the idea that they have the potential to get better, rather than being inherently incompetent.