Bright and dull cows (2025 remix)

Back in 2002, I published an article about how people learn &ldquo;tacit knowledge,&rdquo; using as an example how students of veterinary medicine learn a diagnostic category. I&rsquo;ve gotten a lot of mileage from that example over the years (in speeches and such), and I&rsquo;d like to update the article, because there were some aspects I missed back then. The topic Veterinarians like to…