Whether the stories are good or true is debatable, but I thought this was a nice bit of insight in any case: > Turns out it's really bloody hard to replicate a

Whether the stories are good or true is debatable, but I thought this was a nice bit of insight in any case: > Turns out it's really bloody hard to replicate an organisation. You can call this irreplicable part culture, because that's what it is. Which is a way of saying sure you can hire some folks with some data but that's not gonna help you build a self driving car. That's why the loss of a person hurts so much, because they take knowledge with them that's not only not written down anywhere but can't be written down. And yet, just because it hurts the poachee doesn't mean it will help the poacher. The exciting stuff is all culture, which is as numinous[1] and emergent and intangible as it is real. Of course we know that losing a strong colleague or employee is a terrible experience, because they know more than they could ever share through documentation. The novel bit for me is thinking about that employee’s next employer. There’s no guarantee they can make the same outcomes happen again. [1] “having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.” Context had me thinking this word meant “myriad” but I’m glad I looked it up.