A high leverage pattern I see over and over again: designing processes/tools/etc such that they capture implicit knowledge and make it explicit, legible, and enduring.
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One of my random thoughts about it is that some knowledge exists in no person's brain but is encoded the structure of networks, and so attempts to replicate the knowledge by copying all the brains and all the books but not the network graph are basically doomed to failure.
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Calling it the software industry was a mistake I suspect. Made people think software was inherently what made things better. Vs it just being aligned on what mattered. Tightening, shortening, compounding, and making explicit the loops
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In that sense, speaking meaningfully is an act of invention, too. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674543300 …
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'paving cow paths'
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At the same time, building environments that make previously-hard work implicit and unconscious is how we become capable of doing more. “Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers.“ -Hutchins’ Cognition in the Wild.
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Some even tried to algorithimize the invention process. An interesting read https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Algorithm-systematic-innovation-creativity/dp/0964074044 … Note: IMHO except the book, the net is full of fluffy pseudo science around the concept
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