How to Save Your Company's Secret Second Brain

Every organization has a secret second brain — the tacit knowledge living in Slack DMs, hallway conversations, and the heads of long-tenured employees. When that person leaves, the knowledge walks out with them. But new AI tools like Notion AI and Confluence AI can ingest and surface internal knowledge in ways that were science fiction five years ago. The problem? Most companies still treat knowledge management like the office recycling program. In this episode, we break down what institutional memory actually means (it's the why behind the what), practical capture strategies that don't require people to become writers, and how the wiki garden approach can turn knowledge management from a storage problem into a maintenance problem.