Extract from Sam Bock’s article “What to Do When You’re the Least Technical Person in the Room”
Anyone who hangs a poster on their office wall featuring a kitten hanging onto a low branch by two claws, emblazoned with the phrase “A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH,” likely does so ironically.
Or so I assume.
Nevertheless, some business proverbs really do lend good little bits of advice.
Take this one: “you should never be the smartest person in a room.”
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.
