I can tell this guy has been reading too much Heidegger because this post and the one it references are completely incomprehensible to me.
> Learning is not like seeing lions in a safari. More humble surfing. Less self-deluding chess.
> Reminder to self beginning.
> This is pedantic, but it's important.
The author mentions that storytelling is "near and dear to their heart." My guess is that they are trying to do the storytelling "hook" technique (where you start off by not explaining something fully so that people are compelled to read to the end and get closure). To their credit I did read to the end but I feel like that is a cheap trick. Like a UX dark pattern, but for writing.
The gist of the article is summed up in the title. I suppose this idea has implications for how you think about organizational learning but the author doesn't go into those implications whatsoever.
My own research flow is to read and consume a lot on the material I'm trying to absorb, then try to put that into some kind of essay, either to others or to myself, once I think I have something useful that's resulted. Then, if I'm working on a larger work, months later I come back and collect the associated works and use them as a basis for a first draft of long-form material.
I had no idea it would get many votes. Frankly, I wanted to share this with another site but whenever I share there, it gets auto-posted here. So I figured I would go ahead and submit here myself if it was going to show up in the feed anyway.
If anybody is interested in carrying on the discussion please ping me! I'm finding it fascinating to develop a meta-model that covers both machine, human, and organizational learning. Not sure that anybody's done that before. So far it's been a hoot.
Candidly I took away only one useful observation from your essay: all organizations are teaching organizations. They teach "the way things work around here."
I will engage in a discussion if you first take another hour to make your thesis and points clear. Don't publish it, send the draft to the coordinates in my profile.