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You don't know what you don't know. Iteration is king.

Experience can't be shared to team member. I don't mean that experience can't be documented and read. But that readers don't have visceral feeling upon reading. It goes both way.

First, team members with limited experience don't internalized why certain things is done certain way. They "know" it through indoctrination. It could be cultural or technical. This leads to reinventing wheel or people sharing some random blog article and following advice blindly. You want to exploit your experience.

Second, it is hard for yourself to identify blindspots. Trust and delegate is easier said than done. You want to explore unknown hence expand the island of experience.

Have a mental model on where you and your teammates are on the relative experience spectrum and switch between explore and exploit is important. Fast iteration/feedback cycles help you identify that relative position on the spectrum.



It depends on people, some people can get more information from document than others.




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