@cstross

@Tarbh

Aside from clearance, there is also need-to-know. I frequently encountered situations toward the end of my career when I would try to refer someone to something I'd written years before in a different role that I myself no longer had access to.

@Tarbh

@cstross

The unspoken implication here is that ANYONE knew. The people we took over from certainly didn't.

@junklight

@cstross

The REALLY lazy planets have one climate (*cough* Tattooine, Endor, etc.)

I always wanted to parody this by writing settings where you would go to the circus planet, the concert planet, the grocery shopping planet, etc.

@cstross

Once upon a time I was in the middle east responsible for all of a specific type of activity conducted by the combined joint special operations task force. In the 9th month of our deployment, preparing to head home, I was still learning of the EXISTENCE of teams below me doing that activity; I'd no notion of WHAT they were doing, except that I knew beyond doubt that it wasn't being done right because it would've had to come through me.

Whole system is broke.

@nina_kali_nina

@antanicus

Several studies are linked, including this one from last month, so it's not entirely old news.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050475926004598?via%3Dihub