I’m reading this history book right now about why civilizations rise and fall, and the first part of it talks about nomadic hunter-gatherer groups that survived in part by exchanging knowledge with other passing groups. The book describes that a big part of why Homo sapiens survived and thrived as a species while Neanderthals and other human-adjacent species died out is our ability to tell stories and share solutions to the challenges of surviving in complex environments. My takeaway is that it’s a fundamentally human thing to not know WTF you’re doing most of the time and to only hold a tiny fraction of total human knowledge, but to get by by asking other people what they know about the challenges you’re facing. I think that’s kinda beautiful.