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Perhaps they found the task of turning their brains inside out unappealing for other reasons. Maybe it was just more work, for example. Maybe they didn’t need t
by draw_down 6y ago
Perhaps they found the task of turning their brains inside out unappealing for other reasons. Maybe it was just more work, for example. Maybe they didn’t need their “brilliance” to be validated.
It’s also not really a straightforward thing to do, there are all sorts of questions around how best to structure info for the purposes of those it will be used by. All of this is a pretty big undertaking. The more I think about it the more I’m unsurprised people didn’t just hop to it.
- ecocentrik 6y agoFear of redundancy might be another reasons technical skills would not be readily shared by skilled employees. It's not something you typically see in startups but large corporations are full of people who actively protect themselves from perceived redundancy by obfuscating their skill set.
- draw_down 6y agoMaybe but incentives get to the point a lot faster and don’t require the silly pop-psychology angle that all this other stuff does. It likely just didn’t make sense for them in terms of incentive structure. Look up thread at the person who spent a lot of time training juniors, without much to show for it. That’s how this works in real life. Some guy going “hey I started a wiki so it’s easier now” doesn’t change anything about that. Imagine this same story when the person telling it is the boss of the other people.