In July 2010, someone on the BitcoinTalk forum challenged Satoshi Nakamoto on the scalability of his experimental, peer-to-peer payment network. After several users discussed the issue, Satoshi eventually weighed in, addressing some assumptions and pointing to a prior post for more of his thoughts on the topic. He ended his entry with a line that has been making the rounds in the crypto community ever since: “If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
You are on your own journey. At times, you, too, won’t have time to explain yourself to everyone. The people who are meant to get it will, and of those who don’t, plenty will accept it without blinking twice. The rest? They’ll have to come to their own conclusions.
Having good answers ready is useful and worth working for. But at a number of crossroads, the only way forward is to be okay with leaving some questions unanswered. Sometimes, there’s just no time to explain.