The curse of knowledge: experts make the worst teachers because automatic steps no longer get narrated

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Interviews hire for what candidates can state; six months later performance was decided by everything unstated The best mentorship is not advice — it is watching how someone decides what to ignore Apprenticeship survives the internet age because some things transfer only by standing next to someone doing the work A sommelier can name the notes but the nose itself took years and nobody can download it Polanyi's line still stings: we know more than we can tell Expert intuition is pattern recognition built from thousands of reviewed cases: the chess master's one-second glance The Dreyfus model explains why novices need rules and experts bend them — and why experts struggle to teach what they now do automatically An expert's three-second judgment often outperforms a committee's week of analysis and explaining why is the hard part How do you lead a team of experts? SOPs keep a plant running at 3 a.m. with whoever is on shift — and that reliability is exactly the ceiling of codified knowledge