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I think an article trending earlier yesterday is a big point to strengthen this.

Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320294]

Especially in startups losing knowledge is a huge problem -- I claim -- and a fundamental management issue as productivity models and other resource management models (theories) do not account for memory.

Who had someone left or themselves left only for X system to start dying in production? Or for a lot of info to have been lost because it existed on slack or on the conversation participants heads?

Startups can simply not afford to lose some/most people. Best case that knowledge is at the hands of competition.




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