Arrogance vs. Ignorance

I'm sitting at networking event a few weeks ago and I recognize Lee (not his real name). I had met him once before a year ago and he rubbed me the wrong way. Before that, we had interacted on different social media sites. With beer in hand, this was my first chance to get to know him. Perhaps my first impression of him was off.

"My posts will be studied twenty years from now", he boldly proclaimed early in our conversation. "They're that far ahead of their time."

OK ... I thought to myself.

I hoped that he was joking, but alas, he was quite serious. He further boasted that he wrote for a high-profile media site. I mentioned that plenty of people did, and that I knew a few of them. "Oh no", he boasted. "I am paid."

We're done here.