If you’re the least technical person in the room, what do you do? Sam Bock of Relativity discusses that in this terrific blog post!
In her post titled (wait for it!) What to Do When You’re the Least Technical Person in the Room, available here, Sam notes that some business proverbs do lend good little bits of advice, such as “you should never be the smartest person in a room.”
She adds that:
“Many of us in legal tech and Legal Data Intelligence know that feeling. We get to sit in rooms—physical and digital—full of brilliant people. My colleagues at Relativity are brimming with knowledge that I can’t pretend to match, on topics ranging from the intricacies of case law to artificial intelligence to engineering.
It’s a privilege, and an exceptional opportunity for growth, to be surrounded by such intelligent people and to learn from them every day.
Unfortunately, it can be intimidating, too. Sometimes it can take a notch out of your confidence. It’s uncomfortable to find yourself underequipped with the technical know-how required to join a discussion about agentic and constitutional AI, or transformers (they’re not referring to the robot aliens, believe me), or adversarial neural networks.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Whatever your skills and background, you do have a place at this table. Those brilliant people see brilliance in you, too; that’s why they’ve pulled up a seat for you.”
So, the next time you find yourself to be the least technical person in a room, Sam identifies four habits to put into practice that will “help you contribute in a big way, protect your confidence, and learn something you can take with you into the next conversation.” What are they? Find out here, it’s only one click! You’re technical enough to do that, at least! 😉
So, what do you think? Do you ever feel like you’re the least technical person in the room? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
Image created using Microsoft Designer, using the term “robot lawyer looking confused sitting in a conference room with robot IT professionals looking confident”. Took a few tries to get what I wanted! 😕
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