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@geoffkait 

This problem is so acute that in some fields they have a sub specialty. 

Translational medicine for instance aims to bridge the gap between patient treating doctors and medical researchers. Improving how information flows from one to another. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_medicine

In my day job about half of what I do is this, translating between software developers, reliability engineers and business people so that the teams are fully engaged and unblocked. 

The rest of the time I'm just a jerk. 

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Geoff- Making the complex simple is an art. I don’t think the problem is confined to the hard sciences.
My technical knowledge is spotty, and mostly learned from experience, though I’ve certainly read a fair share, and when the need arises, I ask questions. Most people seem to be pretty gracious in sharing their knowledge unless there is something proprietary involved. (I’m now speaking as a hobbyist, not a lawyer-- I’m retired anyway, but I teach at the university level and it is a challenge to impart knowledge even to smart, ambitious students).
The other thing about audio, and here I’ll probably enter into the ’no go’ zone is that the end result of what i’m listening to is more than a bunch of equations or formulae. I’ve got to take into account room acoustics, gear set up, the source material (which is a huge variable in my experience). When it all works, it is akin to magic, even if there are scientific explanations for what I’m experiencing.
I live for those moments of musical transcendence. The gear is just the machinery to get there.

@erik_squires "In my day job about half of what I do is this, translating between software developers, reliability engineers and business people so that the teams are fully engaged and unblocked."

Tom Smykowski would feel proud 

It's often a case of angels vs pinheads.  I fear there is no ready solution, here or in society at large.