A few Fridays ago I found myself four hours deep in a research rabbit hole on a term I had only just heard named days earlier in a group chat, in the context of imitation of my own course material. The word was “knowledge brokering,” and I have not stopped thinking about it since. The Bridget Benges, Gay Wardles and Lia Trebilcocks of our industry have all shared variations of the same story, and once you have seen the pattern, you cannot unsee it.