People learn fastest when they can imitate other people. Chefs learn by watching other chefs. Dancers learn by watching other dancers. Athletes learn by watching other athletes. But knowledge workers can’t really watch each other in action. Business opportunity.
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That's one of the good things about "grey literature" in mathematics. Freed from the constraints of what is expected in a journal article, one can do a lot more thinking aloud. (Not a business opportunity though.)
The Polymath Project seems to have been an example of knowledge workers being able to watch one another, in some limited sense. Open source in general has this flavour.
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Was just trying to look up your initial post, Tim, and your comment about keeping contributions to very small increments of thought. I didn't immediately find it, but was amused to find DHJ Polymath has a profile on ResearchGate:https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2043373742_D_H_J_Polymath …
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That was the main example I had in mind, but quite a lot of maths blogging helps one to see how others think, often in interestingly different ways.
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I would also point at seminars in the style of Gel’fand. They tend to deviate from just a presentation, and involve mathematicians thinking on the fly and considering ideas in communication with the audience.
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