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Re:The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) by drewcoo on Sunday December 01, 2024 @12:50AM (#42286497)
If the businesses valued it, it would be documented knowledge. It's clearly not worth the time or money to document.

If the workers values it, it would likely be documented knowledge. Undocumented knowledge can be job security.

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Re:The Opposite of Documentation is Superstition (2020) by m348e912 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @09:41AM (#42288670)
> If the workers values it, it would likely be documented knowledge. Undocumented knowledge can be job security.

You're mostly right. It's paradoxical in some ways. Workers generally won't go through the trouble of documenting tribal knowledge. However they greatly appreciate if someone else does.

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