Does the software industry learn?
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- Companies focus on institutional knowledge when employees leave by holding offboarding sessions.
- Smaller firms prioritize institutional learning to rapidly expand employee experience.
- The software industry excels at learning new technologies and processes, termed 'industrial learning'.
- Software lacks universally accepted practices and standards due to its youth, often replacing old with new instead of iterating.
- There is a need for content analyzing past technologies like COBOL and Prolog to inform current trends such as React and Golang.
- Tech culture should value historians and librarians more than solely blue-sky thinkers to learn from history.