The more you are conversant with what you know, the easier it is to develop your own projects and find your niche in the projects of others.

FORBES: The Knowledge Revolution Is Not About Big Data, It's About Well-Connected Little Data

Now, I say ourselves because if you are reading this blog you have already self-selected as someone who is conversant with and interested in certain kinds of technology.

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Suspecting he would be receptive, she also recognized a sensibility she could trust that of a brave iconoclast conversant with botany, butterflies, and books and willing to risk everything for what he believed.

NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat'

For those of you not fully conversant with the drama that is Star Wars: Behind the Scenes - or The People v George Lucas as a recent documentary put it - there has been an ongoing furore about George Lucas meddling with his masterpieces.

BBC: Why Star Wars should be left to the fans

Although riding on a Boeing jetliner is statistically much safer than lying in your bed at home, few members of the flying public are conversant with the thousands of safeguards built into aviation hardware and training procedures that have resulted in no domestic jetliner crashes for over a decade.

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