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> It is much harder to gain tacit knowledge (The important stuff) when you're remote. I read a lot, and it's no match for picking a skilled person's brain for e
by twayt 4y ago
> It is much harder to gain tacit knowledge (The important stuff) when you're remote. I read a lot, and it's no match for picking a skilled person's brain for even just 30min-1hr.
I have the exact opposite experience. During discussions, people are less informed with facts and speak conceptually. In a book or documentation, there's both. Thus is easier to get more reliable information. It is easier to follow logical chains constructed people but the constituents of said chain could potentially be fraught with approximations, thus obfuscating the entire story.
I've discussed topics with really smart people (experts in their field) for hours with many potential ideas but no conclusion. But I only had to read documentation/code for 30min to understand exactly what the real gist of the field was about.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoBy definition, tacit knowledge is hard to codify. If you're reading facts or documentation it's definitely not tacit knowledge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge > It is easier to follow logical chains constructed people but the constituents of said chain could potentially be fraught with approximations, thus obfuscating the entire story. It's not possible to logically explain everything. Intuition is very important. Hence, the value of tacit knowledge. I would generally much rather hear an expert talk conceptually and about their intuition than them give me a lecture on logic and facts. It's impossible to glean some things through pure logic. For example, what is clean code?