Yeah, I fully get not wanting to turn your hobby into work! You already do plenty.
About your narrow area of expertise, don’t beat yourself up over it. I doubt anybody was expecting you to know every bit of history, and your passion for what you do know is what makes your explanations interesting.
Don’t worry, nothing beating myself up about it! Even folk with doctorates have pretty narrow fields, even if their general knowledge is still broader than mine. It’s legitimately very flattering to have a reputation for historical knowledge on the Threadiverse, but my ego is less important than reminding people that what I say is still very fallible, especially outside of my primary field of interest!
To be clear, at least in my mind, it’s not that you’ve got a reputation for deep historical knowledge. It’s that you’ve got a passion for history, and the willingness to put in the time and effort to share it with the rest of us in a way that’s very accessible!
Yeah, I fully get not wanting to turn your hobby into work! You already do plenty.
About your narrow area of expertise, don’t beat yourself up over it. I doubt anybody was expecting you to know every bit of history, and your passion for what you do know is what makes your explanations interesting.
Don’t worry, nothing beating myself up about it! Even folk with doctorates have pretty narrow fields, even if their general knowledge is still broader than mine. It’s legitimately very flattering to have a reputation for historical knowledge on the Threadiverse, but my ego is less important than reminding people that what I say is still very fallible, especially outside of my primary field of interest!
To be clear, at least in my mind, it’s not that you’ve got a reputation for deep historical knowledge. It’s that you’ve got a passion for history, and the willingness to put in the time and effort to share it with the rest of us in a way that’s very accessible!