The Invisible Knowledge Problem | why you can't articulate what you know
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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Tacit vs explicit knowledge gives us a framework to think about what we know, how can we know, and which type of knowledge do we need to solve problems in front of us.
This has really changed how I view expertise, learning, and progress. I hope you enjoyed this too!
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00:00 - Tacit vs Explicit knowledge
04:02 - Why does it matter?
07:07 - 4 strategies to build your knowledge moat
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When I was learning to ride a bike, my father told me; "Point the wheel in the direction you are falling." It worked. A life lesson for all of us. Thanks, Dad.
"🚗 Point the wheel in the direction you are falling! 🙌 Absolutely a valuable life lesson. Sometimes, when you find yourself tumbling or have already fallen, take a moment to reflect on it. It might just be the perfect time for some self-reflection. But remember, steering the wheel in the direction of your fall can truly be a game changer! 🎮💡"
Thabk you for this
This actually sounds like the perfect way to combat imposter syndrome. It sounds like when you’re struggling with explicit knowledge you could lean on your tacit knowledge to bridge the gap and play to YOUR strengths.
Good point.
I feel like the otherwise is also true. I often feel impostor syndrome when my explicit knowledge are far better than tacit knowledge
@@billbowser13your explicit knowledge is also you. its something that haven't manifested yet. there is a sweet spot between the two but our biases shapes our tacit too and so having a good explicit knowledge is always a better start. understanding our weakpoints why we feel the imposter syndrome can help us break it down to actionable insights
Vicky I can honestly say you are my mentor in my hero’s journey in becoming a product manager. You introduced me to framework thinking and I feel frameworks is my competitive advantage in the interview process. Thank you!
Thank you for saying so and I hope these frameworks will help you in the interviews. Good luck!!
What's a piece of tacit knowledge you have and want to articulate? Mine is around framework thinking and intersectional thinking, hence this channel!
If you liked this, check out Metalearning | a framework on learning how to learn: ua-cam.com/video/9rhCuRGeZ2A/v-deo.html
Evaluating people (personally and professionally) is definitely tacit knowledge. I'd have to imagine that people like Buffet, Bezos, Musk, Jobs, etc. were successful because they chose the people around them based on mostly tacit knowledge about what they needed.
@@Hawking1969 evaluating people is such a great one - hard to nail down and makes all the difference. Thank you for sharing this and for watching!!
Weird thing and the reason I clicked on the video is that am going through it right now. I have been practicing, speeding up my typing speed. I started noticing that am able to type words faster than I think accurately. I get it, why it’s happens, but still getting shocked why it’s happening. It’s a moment of experience that you feel and know, but can’t explain. Love to the vid also ❤
Agree! Brand loyalty is tacit. Hence, it can not be conveyed. It must be a personal experience. Maybe a parataxic experience that occurs outside of syntaxic. I think the connection or aversion to people can be tacit as well. One could struggle to explain exactly what drew them towards a person or maybe repulsed them. If analysed, one arrives at a the incite you mentioned, then it seems so obvious, an AhHa moment. Yet others may still not see it. I love what you said "notice how you see different and lean into it" Thank you Vicky!
Ohh interesting point about connection/aversion to people - when ever I say "vibe", I know I'm getting to something tacit. Thank you for sharing this and for watching!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:40 🧠 Tacit vs. explicit knowledge is a key framework for understanding what we know.
01:22 📚 Explicit knowledge can be articulated, like facts, formulas, and frameworks, but it often feels disconnected from real-world utility.
02:17 💡 Tacit knowledge is challenging to articulate and deeply personal, making it a source of competitive advantage.
03:38 🍎 Companies like Apple leverage tacit knowledge to create distinct design philosophies and user experiences.
07:16 🏰 Building a strategic moat around knowledge involves both explicit and tacit knowledge, and individuals should focus on connections and insights.
10:46 🤔 Your competitive advantage lies in the unique differences and connections you can make based on your tacit knowledge.
11:56 🧩 Articulating and sharing your tacit knowledge through frameworks and case studies can help others see the connections you've made.
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Thank you!
This is one of those videos that aren't *quite* ringing a bell for me (more like a muted bell somewhere in the distance) but I'm hoping that as I let these ideas linger in the back of my mind for the new few days, I'll start to be able to apply some of them to how I think and work.
Really excellent video Vicky and this topic is not even something I’ve heard expounded upon before but as I listened through I could tell instinctively that this something that had followed me (and probably all human beings) our whole life. I also really like how you mention the clichés that we hear of all the time and for people to say them by themselves out of contacts like you said, is not very helpful. But when connected with this idea, it really seems like they’re not wrong for saying it. it’s like practicing what you preach and doing it with the intent of building connections so that our brain and mental models are literally becoming something nobody else has, even though other people might have the knowledge, like your example of Jeff Bezos . I really enjoyed this information because as I listened, I could tell instinctively it was true.
Loving this channel! ❤
Vicky, another super helpful video. Often find myself thinking differently than others. But it doesn’t usually feel like a competitive advantage. It’s feel somewhere between that round peg in a square hole or frankly being a pain in everyone’s … well you get the picture 😂! If I lean into this, might really drive my colleagues nuts!
Thank you for watching! And haha your colleagues have to learn how to work with people with a competitive advantage!
So the lattice work are our individual heuristics and biases that feed into the mental model to either result in outcomes that serve us or do not serve us. Did I understand that right?
I'm becoming a fan of your channel over time. If you take the market, or competition, out of the problem, do you think many of your ideas are more generalizable to broader social problems that are not market oriented? Do you think tacit knowledge isn't just about competetive advantage, that it can also be about solving social problems? I feel many governments and social do-gooders gain a ton of tacit knowledge and can't get it out there.
Im so glad you fixed the audio. I love the content, but it made some of your older videos intolerable to me.
MBA schools are still focused on backward looking data analysis to understand the future. This means the best of the best burn out quickly AB become obsessed with doing what ever it takes to retire in their 30’s. The odds of success would be dramatically superior for a middling English major, at least they have been trained to keep their ears and mind open to the world around them. How many historically accurate and insightful biographies about significant people in history that were written by a top B school MBA? That these concepts have to be taught in top tier MBA schools speaks volumes. Teaching is one thing when the learning objective is to do a brain purge as soon as the last exam is over. Where is the filter that rejects those that fail to demonstrate over the long term how to absorb and grow this knowledge? Does the expression “short putt” so familiar in C-suite meetings?
With explicit knowledge, we stand on the shoulders of giants. With tacit knowledge, we have to climb the mountain ourselves with the aid of a mentor. Consider learning the piano. The road to becoming a concert pianist doesn't get easier. Understanding complex math, like FFT, is easier now than when I learned, as great minds have furthered the subject and helped us to rise up faster.
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I can't believe i just watched a video explaining something that I couldn't understand
there are more examples ,using tacit knowledge that i believe cant be articulated .(example : being able to by pass a sudden car stopping ahead of you with a swift steering maneuver !) any thoughts on such a situation?
My notes
#1 have a reasonable amount of explicit knowledge to be able to navigate the space
#2 use frameworks to gain an understanding of the big picture in the space, and build more explicit knowledge by knowing where you're learning in the space
#3 internalize the explicit knowledge into tacit knowledge, by doing and experiencing. You want to create connections around your knowledge. Never stop learning
#4.a explore unexplored areas on the edge of the space, discover something new
#4.b export your tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge by sharing and teaching
I have a similar concept in mind, its the idea that we all understand things differently that leads us to certain key concepts, which we use to see and understand the world around us kinda like lenses. I refer to these concepts as crystallized ideas. These crystalized ideas may seem cleaver or smart or dumb or overused (a good ex would be something like, time is the greatest teacher, or, it is only when we know everything we realize we know nothing), but without the proper context these ideas only reflect the how the listener sees the world or may even lead them to a modified version of it. The closest we've ever come to be able to communicate these crystallized ideas are through story telling but even that isn't perfectas many of have different interpretations of our own religious mythological works.
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PS : I may have picked up this idea possibly somewhere over the youtube so pls do tell if you know the source of the idea of 'crystallized ideas'
Sounds like frameworks and mental models? Does this resonate? ua-cam.com/video/U5xskQVA-2c/v-deo.html
The Apple design philosophy is different from the Samsung system because Samsung is using banked on work so even if they have exclusive features they don't make it all flow seamlessly or even if they do, they cannot un-create the Paradox of Choice friction in design because people can't disassociate it with other Android phones sub-consciously where as Apple thanks to Steve Jobs' years of neural imprinting along with its ecosystem creates this identity of exclusiveness among its users which then produces both FOMO as well as Socio-attachment to outsiders because they keep getting reinforced by the Apple fans that it contains something they can't pinpoint when many other products create the same thing and is a common tactic in the coffee industry like when Starbucks makes you smell the coffee and the ambience before you even start ordering or more insidiously when many marketers wanted Japanese people to drink coffee and be addicted to sugary caffeine instead of traditional tea, they would pre-sell many coffee drinks to kids and teens usually the high sugary ones as opposed to black coffee so that when they grew up there'd be social FOMO among a budding middle class to be drinking coffee. It's no different than if you subconsciously can't differentiate why you want or need to smoke a cig because it's masculine and relaxing as a guy even though you normally wouldn't associate it with a cowboy wearing guy in Marlboro country and may or may not have known him at all and just saw your average actor smoking a cig. Apple really hasn't innovated much on that minimalist end. They pretty much capped their marketing on minimalism after Steve Jobs died. They're now focused on combining hardware and integrating it with cars and other stuff to establish their monopoly on overpriced planned obsolescence in the smartphone industry.
Can Generative AI understand and replicate our tacit knowledge ?
You keep coming back to Iphone because you're over-socialized and you can't stand the pressure of the green text. Many such cases.