What tacit knowledge is, and why it is the most interesting topic in the study of expertise today.
Copying Better: How To Acquire The Tacit Knowledge of Experts
Much of expertise is tacit: that is, it cannot be captured through words alone. We look at techniques, drawn from the field of Naturalistic Decision Making, designed to acquire the tacit knowledge of experts.
The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject — LessWrong
TL;DR Tacit knowledge is extremely valuable. Unfortunately, developing tacit knowledge is usually bottlenecked by apprentice-master relationships. Ta…
Immutable Skills
How knowledge redevelops at higher levels of abstraction, and why its still dependent on properties of the printing press
What matters in the age of AI is taste
the case for why a curated personal knowledge base has never mattered more
Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
Knowledge sharing: Why smart creatives build in public
Theory and Memory: Two Forces Shaping Software Team Knowledge
How insights from cognitive science and social psychology explain why software knowledge is so hard to preserve
Why LLM Wiki? 🧠 Future Of Knowledge For Agentic AI & Humans
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.
The Knowledge Ecology
The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Yes? No? Yes-no-yes-no-yes-no.
AI’s Next Chapter Requires Human Expertise
The future of AI doesn’t just require technical skills; it demands deep human expertise, writes Annie K. Lamar.
Community Knowledge Management
Communities need specific Knowledge Management solutions. Here's why
AI #169: New Knowledge
Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge.
Your Most Important Skill: Empathy
TL;DR — Empathy is the most important skill you can practice. It will lead to greater success personally and professionally and will allow…
Deep research requires a slower pace than tech industry work
Anyone working in an industry for a while will become accustomed to that culture—its processes, its norms, its values, its tacit knowledge. Much of this is incredibly valuable, of course, but these ideas can also represent constraints. There are some important impedances here between tech industry culture and research culture. In particular, tech culture is calibrated to a much faster pace. This can lead to impatience or early abandonment when confronting problems which require a researcher’s pace.
"One of the important skills of the professional scientists... is to know what to read and what not to read. This is narrow community knowledge built up through extended face-to-face socialisation in expert groups."
Large language models eroding science understanding: an empirical study of ‘malignment’ - AI and Ethics
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