A recent update on my phone put me in mind of this xkcd about experts in a given field misjudging non-experts’ understanding of topics in that field:
The update is pretty straightforward: my phone asked “Would you like me to automatically clean up OTPs after 24 hours?”
I had a bit of a chuckle thinking about the reaction that most people would likely have to this question. Now, maybe The Goog is trying to uplevel folks’ understanding of infosec terminology by injecting it into their products. …but I think a more likely scenario is that some techno-dweeb implemented this feature in the absence of a product person saying “Y’know, we should really call them ‘security codes’ or ‘PINs’ - something Mere Mortals are familiar with.” By virtue of being decidedly a member of the techno-dweeb set happen to know what an OTP is…but I’m imagining a phone call from my father-in-law: I “Cliff…what in hell is an OTP? Do I have one? Do I need to clean it up?”
This got me thinking about masters of craft in other areas. Like Jacques Pépin making a French omelette. It’s just that simple, eh? Or this guy teaching how to make baguettes. (The thing that blows my mind about the latter: Duder is wearing a black cable-knit turtleneck, winging flour around with wild abandon, and has not one spec of white anywhere on him.)
Or from the world of sports: Ted Williams’ batting advice. This actually starts off pretty reasonably - “You’ve got to wait for the right pitch” - but then he follows it up with (paraphrasing) “…and if you don’t get the right pitch, crush a dinger anyway.” Pretty sage there, Teddy. Even more hilariously, Bea st Mode’s rushing “technique”. Awesome.