How to do "know" if your daily work is contributing to building domain knowledge? And, how do you identify and seek domain knowledge?

**Warning:** *I am an analytics engineer who lurks on this sub, pretends to know what they're are talking about, and am fascinated with "scientific thinking". I may write something stupid or incorrect, so please bear with me. There's essentially three sets of questions/scenarios below as it relates to domain knowledge.*

I'm under the impression that building domain knowledge comes from working in these roles and supporting business functions, but it also seems there's risk in that domain knowledge isn't being …

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