And most of the replies were enthusiastic agreements about how it wasn't a real word and was really annoying
I don't really care about the word. I care about the quantification of knowledge. Pulling facts from some experience someone else had does not mean you had that experience. The lesson learned is more than just some facts.
You cannot replace someone who knows a lot about a topic or community with a sufficient amount of user studies or experiments. You do not pay me because of the facts I know—you pay me for how I interpret and act upon them.
Experience isn't fungible, but the word "learnings" tends to imply that it is and that you can get the full benefit of experience from reading the conclusions of someone else's experience.
This truth is a fundamental part of why treating people as resources is not only unethical, it is a cause of failure.
