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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
It’s always lovely to see software engineers link to my original piece on tacit knowledge, saying that they identify with the skilled people I describe in it. But it’s also a little bittersweet, because I gave up the pursuit of that level of intuitive expertise in software.
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Testing Required
@testingrequired
Replying to @TheCodeJunkie
This made me think of: commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno "In my previous job, my technical lead, Hieu, had an uncanny ability to sit in on requirements meetings and, within minutes, sketch out a program structure that would be the simplest possible solution with the fewest moving parts."
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Mike Ryan
@mikeryanretail
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@ejames_c
I'm curious to learn how you would view tacit knowledge in relation to experience. They seem synonymous to me, yet quite interestingly the word experience isn't written once in the article (I even ⌘+F'ed it 😅)
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
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@mikeryanretail
Definitely related, but I don’t like using experience as a descriptor in the piece because it’s too … imprecise? It allows me to sweep a great deal under the blanket of a single word.
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Mike Ryan
@mikeryanretail
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@ejames_c
Fair point. And on the flip side, while "experience" can be too general a term, it also is often code for years-on-the-job, which is so reductive and can get quite gatekeepy.
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