Yes, we are competitors in a very competitive environment. Heck, even the places we work for increasingly compete with us!
There are surely some things all of us keep closely to our chests.
But we are also sitting in the same boat, and together we have the strength to determine it’s direction.
People used to have “guilds”. Like a shoemaker’s guild and a tailor’s guild. I think we are something like that, just informal.
Despite the fierce competition, there are lots of ways we can and need to cooperate.
By ourselves we are weak, but together we are strong!