A few years ago, we had school kids in the company for a week-long internship.
And on one of those days, I was doing hardware tests for a software we wrote, and a colleague, who was taking care of one of the kids, he saw me and spontaneously asked, if I could explain to the kid what I’m doing.

And the thing is, the colleague didn’t know me or my project, so he loved my infodump. He asked tons of clarifying questions, including questions that went way over the kid’s head.

Meanwhile, the kid did not say a single word during my infodump. You could tell his mental capacity was reached long before we talked and then came my 20-minute-long deluge of information. I do hope that the kid took away at least an impression, but it just did not seem like my words even entered his ears.

And yep, pretty much that look on his face. Like a deer staring into the headlights before it’s hit by a truckload of information.