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Good point on structuring internal knowledge holdings to enable PageRank. The organizations I've worked in seem to put zero thought into this and instead just l

• pushfoo 3y ago
  TL;DR: There was no intentional structuring, just Conway's law[1] in action I think you misunderstood: the organizations where PageRank worked best also put zero thought into it. I think it's more like holdovers from 90s and 2000s management trends emergently created an intranet structure which fit the assumptions underlying PageRank. Even interdepartmental tensions may have helped due to imitating the company behaviors of those eras. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law