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And the bottom line is:

>>... nothing of it will go anywhere.

>>Don’t take that as a challenge. Take it as a red flag and run. Run towards better problems.

Wow, speaking of the value of negative results, that is hugely valuable! Could easily save person-decades of work & funds for more productive results.

The insights that the most relevant knowledge is not written into the publications (for a variety of reasons), and that the few that are are of limited use to the target audience, and even when it is useful it is a small part of the workload (i. e., not a real pain point), are key to seeing that the entire category of projects to extract & encode such knowledge is doomed.



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