secrecy by means of non-disclosure is essentially an obsolete phenomenon, so this is the only kind of knowledge worth calling "occult knowledge" at this point:https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1193302182478483456 …
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esoteric traditions typically speak in some way of this knowledge being "transmitted", the idea being that if you can't get it across by saying it, you can in some way move it around by other media. possibly i may be permitted doubt as to how much of this is actually occurring
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in software engineering, a stellar example of occult knowledge is the Single Responsibility Principle. getting it is a task of induction from example. that's hard, though, so instead people move around simple verbal statements about it that are wronghttps://hackernoon.com/you-dont-understand-the-single-responsibility-principle-abfdd005b137 …
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the SRP is directly and effectively occulted *by* the easy-to-understand presentations which are made of it. and we see with the millions of Java architecture astronauts it has spawned that this kind of thing can be massively destructive. be careful with the occult, kids
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