It’s crazy that in most jobs and at most organizations, there’s little or no explicit education about the nature of the domain. Engineers, lawyers, accountants, and others go to school to learn the skills of their profession, but when it comes to the company, the industry, financial relationships, and how the business works, most people assume they’ll just pick up what they need to know, and most organizations agree. In reality, maybe you’ll pick up what you need to know or maybe you won’t. But in light of the critical importance of domain knowledge, it’s obvious that this offhand approach to
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