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Good share. Haven't read but looking at the wiki entry it's an interesting book, Technology requires a culture to sustain it.

To use a fancy word there's a "noosphere" around that carries knowledge and lore along with it.

Plus the usual kind of Deming wisdom about real knowledge organisation:

    "in many ways opposite of traditional management...innovations are
    started at the grassroots level.", and "people will give their best
    when the work itself is challenging and rewarding."

That atmosphere is still around in engineering teams in smaller companies where there's a good range of advancement within engineering and some stable products so there's a stream of old-timers and apprentices building and exchanging chops.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming