When I ask someone what they're good at, they almost always answer with their job title. When I ask how they decide, they go quiet. Not because they don't know, but because they've never had to explain it.
The curse of knowing too much
After enough years, judgment stops feeling like judgment. It becomes intuition, and intuition doesn't get documented. You look at a problem and within thirty seconds you know where it's heading. Someone with less mileage would take weeks to get there, if they got there at all.
That leap is precisely the asset. And it's precisely what nobody writes down, because to the person who has it, it seems self-evident.
What's obvious to you is revealing to whoever comes next.
How to recover it
You don't recover it by asking someone to write a book. You recover it by asking questions. Specific, uncomfortable, repeated questions: why did you decide that way, what would have happened otherwise, what made you change your mind that one time.
That's where the principles show up. Not as theory, but as something you already use every day without naming it.
If you want to start on your own, do one thing this week: every time you make a decision that would be hard for someone else, write one line on why you made it that way. In a month you'll have the draft of your own method.
What if what you know were your next asset?
Everything I write here comes from the work of extracting, structuring, and publishing knowledge. Choose where to go next.