On: Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Well, as in all of these absolutist black/white, binary statements, "it depends."

In my experience, tribal knowledge, which also includes cultural inculcation, can be the difference between success and failure. Sometimes, on the success side, and, sometimes, on the failure side.

The main thing about "tribal knowledge," is that it relies on long-term association/employment, and that is not something we see much of, these days.

[vt100 → ChrisMarshallNY]

Surely there are tribes that transcend and cross corporations. That's why you can hire old colleagues and get a team up and running in a startup or new firm

[ChrisMarshallNY → vt100]

That would be "association."

But there is also a great deal of extremely mercenary behavior, in today's workplace (not just tech).

I suspect that it would be hard to have contiguous relationships.

I worked at my last company for 27 years. I knew many folks for decades.

I believe that this kind of thing is ... uncommon ... these days.

[botalert → ChrisMarshallNY]

Come now Chris, you know articles like these are cat nip for the HN circlejerk. Put up a straw man and then beat it down over and over again.

PS. I loved the page you put up of your dad a few days ago and mentioned in the thread about diplomacy. Very interesting person.