Knowledge transfer is a lost art. Preservation is key.

You keep them to teach the ones coming behind him. We need to get back to the place where we honor experience.

This is something that's very evident to my husband in the civil engineering field. He is a senior civil designer and been doing it for nearly 30 years. He is extremely knowledgeable. All the civil designers in the industry are about his age. The young people don't want to be civil designers they want to be civil engineers. Because the fancy title pays more than the civil designers but the reality is no work can be done without the civil designers because the engineers don't know how to do that work, they know what it should look like but they don't know the actual process. When everybody of his generation retires there won't be people who understand how to do the civil design, they'll only know what the finished product should look like and not how to get there. He does designing for massive AI data centers. And they all better get built now because nobody will know how to get it done are about 10-15 years.

Excellent video. Did you know they forgot how to make concrete for 1500 years? According to the history books, no one from the year 300 A.D. to 1800 A.D. knew the simple formula of concrete,.. This is biblical, it’s actually prophesied that the children will not honor their ancestors so ancient knowledge is lost. I can see that part of history repeating itself when everyone’s brain is contained in the device that prospers in their hand/ Re; Daniel 8:25

My Grandfather was a mason his entire life but mainly focused on large furnaces in foundries. Once he sold his company they would call him on large projects to help monitor the work being done, well into his 70’s. Every single day that man was on site every bricklayer paid close attention to how/what/ and why he did things the way he did. Anything that man did, even around the household I tried to learn as much as possible. He was the one that’ll let you do an entire job and then once complete he’d ask “so what did you do wrong?”. Most of my knowledge came from that man, and I still have a lot to learn. Unfortunately he has since passed and I will continue to pass the knowledge I’ve learned and will continue to learn down to my children.

It is true that there is a form of knowledge, gleaned from experience, that must be transferred during real world application.

Grew up around the old salts, engineers, famers, and skilled tradesmen. One thing that I am certain of- 'If you display genuine interest in something and are willing to learn- many out there are willing to teach you.' They are enthusiastic to pass knowledge down, but they won't show that enthusiasm until you've earned their respect- they will be hard on you, but that is the rite of passage and how they ensure you pass on the correct knowledge later. //There's something magical about the old hardass expert that finally acknowledges you//

I'm 61 and have been in IT for over 35 years. This past Friday I was let go from my position with no warning, no reason other than "it's business". And the kicker? I was let go via email. There is something inherently wrong when companies kick us to the curb like that.

Why I love talking to my older clients.

Nursing should take a page out of this man's playbook