lol Chief - you sound like Rainman - wanna trade secrets?
Really though, that's what I think "community" and survival is all about. Sharing knowledge with each other that comes from experience. I don't claim to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination but I know what has worked, what has failed, and what I have been taught by others more experienced than myself. And I'm always open to learn!
My mother was a disfunctional handful for sure but she was brilliant and she always taught me that there is nothing that you can't learn from someone wiser than yourself ("so keep your ears open" she would say) or that you can't teach yourself with the proper books. I guess I believed her..... I've tried to teach my son the same.