A “Brain Trust” refers to the collective intelligence and knowledge contained within a group or team in a company or organization. This valuable resource often consists of tribal knowledge, which is the information and expertise that is shared through informal channels and passed down from experienced members. By tapping into this Brain Trust, organizations can foster innovation, improve decision-making, and enhance overall performance. Encouraging open communication, collaboration, and continuous learning can help harness the power of a company’s Brain Trust and ensure that its tribal knowledge is preserved, shared, and leveraged to drive success.
or with a slightly different prompt
A Brain Trust is an informal group of experts who provide advice and insights to an individual or organization. The term was popularized during the Roosevelt administration, where a group of advisers, known as the “Brain Trust,” provided guidance on various policy matters.
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Primary Knowledge
Some people have knowledge that is not easily acquired through a typical or obvious learning process. They were there, they built it, they know why it was built that way. They understand the constraints, the tradeoffs, the baggage & luggage.
Tribal
Sometimes this knowledge is guarded. Not even in in secret internal wiki. Never written down. Why would you write it down? If you have nobody to share it with, why write it down. Enter the new age of auto-transcriptions. If you aren’t transcribing all your internal meetings into a curated corpus, you are being blocked by legal. or you are missing out.
Some will be actively hostile to sharing. Need to know lists (N2K) create vast arrays of silos of information. They may not be allowed to tell you.
Back to techno optimism.
I think we are just back to having secretaries
commandpattern.org – on LLMs and GenAI
Examples of Tribal Knowledge
- Where the Water Main master shutoff valve is
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Brain Trust as a Service. I think the only two companies you are competing against right now is Google and Microsoft. Good luck.
What are the consequences of this tribal knowledge concept in your organization?
Lets sus out this architecture….
- Hardware Requirements
- Why is legal mad at us?
- Software Stack
CommandPattern.org 