The Commonplace blog has been writing a lot on tacit knowledge recently. As someone who’s been programming for a long time (8ish years), these articles resonated deeply. I won’t go into too much detail what tacit knowledge is about, since the above posts do such a good job with it. If you’re not familiar, check them out. Explicit knowledge vs tacit knowledge Essentially, explicit knowledge is that which can be transferred verbally. For example, I could tell someone the method name for p...
