Re:You say 'silo' as if it were a bad thing
by esafak on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:11PM
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It's possible for the locking up of knowledge to be bad, and for the preservation of the integrity of knowledge to be good at the same time.
The mistake the article makes is of modeling the flow as bidirectional. And since she doesn't want integrity to suffer, she says siloing is good. You want information to get out without getting diluting. It is never good for the left hand not to know the right hand. Information should flow freely, subject to ingress monitoring; don't admit bad information, but don't close the border.
The question is whether you have the ability to police your side of the border.
The mistake the article makes is of modeling the flow as bidirectional. And since she doesn't want integrity to suffer, she says siloing is good. You want information to get out without getting diluting. It is never good for the left hand not to know the right hand. Information should flow freely, subject to ingress monitoring; don't admit bad information, but don't close the border.
The question is whether you have the ability to police your side of the border.