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We know more than we can tell
Tacit | Stripe Press Director’s note “I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell. This fact seems obvious enough; but it is not easy to say exactly what it means.” Michael Polyani, The Tacit Dimension In 1291, all glassmakers who lived in Venice were ordered to move to Murano, a cluster of seven tiny nearby islands. The exile was protective: it kept trade secrets contained and reduced the fire risk to the city’s wooden buildings. For five centuries, Murano’s workshops thrived. Then Napoleon conquered Venice in 1797 and dismantled the gui
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