Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202110231457 Tacit knowledge

Tacit knowledge is what people understand in their own minds. It is not commemorated anywhere permanent.¹ When you ask someone for advice and they speak to you from experience and what they know off the top of their head, they're relying on their tacit knowledge. 202408021018 Intuition and instinct are implicit knowledge.

In contrast, 202110231459 Explicit knowledge is well defined and more lasting. Since 202110231440 Knowledge is the backbone of a product organization, it's often a good idea for organizations to turn the tacit knowledge of their individuals into explicit knowledge.

Diffey, S. (2020, October 26). The ‘Knowledge-creating’ Product Organisation. Medium. https://productcoalition.com/the-knowledge-creating-product-organisation-6ec80870647b ↩