Something the Recurse Center also put a lot of work into is making it safe to express lack of understanding&#x2F;knowledge. There&#x27;s a huge difference between a meeting where someone feels able to say &quot;I&#x27;m totally lost, can we rewind&quot; and one where they just quietly panic.<p>That&#x27;s somewhat in tension with being able to express dissent, in that being able to dissent constructively requires both social skill and an underlying environment of trust.<p>It&#x27;s easy to cultivate only one of those (eg most OS mailing lists choose dissent) but cultivating both is harder and I haven&#x27;t seen it ever happen by accident - all the communities that come to mind are ones that direct a lot of attention and effort to community structure and expectations.