
inarticulable knowledge

And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit knowledge in action.
Cedric Chin • Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
And it’s interesting that the writing I tend to think of as “good” is good because it’s mysterious. It tends to happen when I get out of the way—when I let it go a little bit, I surprise myself. I feel most pleased with my language when I don’t understand it completely.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime quality—call it taste, imagination, creativity, courage, judgment, intuition, agency.