general thoughts on knowledge, curation, collective intelligence, and why I'm building :
(will keep updating this thread)
Conversation
1) manual human curation is underrated
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2) the marginal unit of time is better spent organizing existing information than creating new.
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3) we need to be able to dance across disciplines and facilitate cross pollination of ideas. our progress as a species depends on it.
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4) there are lots of great single-player notetaking tools, not enough multi-player knowledge networks.
how much knowledge is lost across thousands of (private) fragmented notion lists and “best of” Twitter threads across the web?
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5) we built wikipedia with no economic incentive. imagine what else we could build w/ community ownership? the collaborative potential of the Internet is vastly untapped.
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6) we need to transition from information as an interruption technology to information as a thinking tool.
the goal is not to read more. the goal is to think better, so we can achieve our goals.
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7) the human brain is incredible at uncovering meaning, but is terrible at long-term memory storage.
if we forget what we read, we can’t apply the knowledge to the problem at hand.
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yes, yes, yes to this thread. Can we please talk? Your thoughts are such a big motivation to build @napkin_one
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YES! Slide into my DMs.
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