Almost all knowledge is tacit, there's no clear line between applying and learning, it's a feedback loop. In fact obsession with abstract knowledge has always b

Almost all knowledge is tacit, there's no clear line between applying and learning, it's a feedback loop. In fact obsession with abstract knowledge has always been weird to me. How far does reading about swimming get you? The offshoring thing is literally just about that. The nastiness and cultural mismatch of that industry. The huge Chinese and Indian domestic tech industries show that they can build successful things, just not necessarily for foreign markets.