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It's worth noting a tautology: tacit knowledge is undocmented because it is undocumentable. The key insight (which I agree with!) is that some kinds of knowled
by nullhole 3y ago
It's worth noting a tautology: tacit knowledge is undocmented because it is undocumentable.
The key insight (which I agree with!) is that some kinds of knowledge are undocumentable. The challenge - at least for those charged with ensuring processes are documented - is deciding what is and what isn't documentable.
- betenoire 3y agoI have a lot of habits because of lessons I've learned. There are 100 ways to do it, I chose 1. Documenting the 99 is unreasonable, but that's tacit knowledge, isn't it? I will document why I didn't choose the most obvious one, though.
- tikhonj 3y agoIt's a definition. I suppose definitions are tautologies by definition though :) And yeah, the real insight is not the definition but the fact that tacit knowledge is inevitable and important, and that trying to eliminate it will be actively counterproductive.