Experience Doesn't Stack: The Myth of Collective Knowledge
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We should stop worshipping numerical comfort. Twenty partial views don’t make a whole picture. They make noise. They make an echo. They create professionalized, sanitized, panel-approved blindness.
If you're lucky enough to know someone with twenty years of scar tissue in a domain, listen. Don't just ask what they know. Ask what they've unlearned. Ask what they stopped saying because nobody understood. That's where the signal lives.
“Worshipping numerical comfort” is a fantastic phrase that I’ll be pondering here for the next few days.