I’ve also been fascinated for decades by the problems of knowledge management in organisations. How do they know what they know? Despite decades of investment and experiment, none of the systems used in business or government work very well. There are often strong disincentives to sharing knowledge, and it’s always a challenge to get people to tag

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In one instance, Dunbar actually saw two labs encounter the same experimental problem at around the same time. Proteins they wanted to measure would get stuck to a filter, which made them hard to analyze. One of the labs was entirely E. coli experts, and the other had scientists with chemistry, physics, biology, and genetics backgrounds, plus medic

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