E² does not require deep engineering expertise to begin. It requires a disposition: intellectual curiosity and the willingness to slow down. The habit of asking why before accepting, of staying in the conversation rather than waiting for output, is available to anyone at any experience level. The depth of the conversation scales with the human's existing knowledge, but the value of having the conversation exists regardless of where someone is starting from.

The clearest illustration of this is not a senior engineer interrogating a database architecture decision. It is a 10 year old learn