Hexagram 59: 渙

You're looking at organizational calcification. Knowledge trapped in silos, teams not communicating, duplicated effort. You're literally paying people to solve problems already solved three departments over, but the solution never makes it across the barrier. The rigidity is real and materially expensive. The authoritarian approach says: mandate information-sharing, create governance structures, force everyone to use the same systems. This rarely works. People route around mandates they don't understand. The blockage persists in new forms—now you have both the original silos and the abandoned wiki that nobody maintains. Here's the alternative, straight from Mosaic and the classical text: create infrastructure that makes sharing obviously beneficial. The person in Team A discovers they can solve their problem in ten minutes by checking Team B's documentation instead of spending three days reinventing the solution. The behavior spreads because it works, not because it's mandated. The text talks about 'religious forces'—meaning systems that genuinely serve collective benefit rather than local optimization. The ancient rulers used shared rituals to create common context. You need shared infrastructure that makes knowledge flow serve people's actual needs, not abstract institutional requirements. Before Mosaic: the research paper exists at MIT but the student in Mumbai can't access it. The barrier is real. After Mosaic: the student downloads the PDF, the barrier becomes irrelevant. Not destroyed—the institutional structures still exist—but rendered permeable by infrastructure that makes information flow the path of least resistance. Dispersion of blockage leads to gathering together on new terms. The old rigid structure dissolves. Something more fluid emerges. But you have to actually build the infrastructure. Complaining about silos while refusing to create pathways achieves nothing. Wind over water: gentle, persistent, making the frozen permeable again. Build the thing that makes sharing easier than hoarding. Let the system work.