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There’s no way you’re going to contribute meaningfully right now with less than 80h weeks. The sheer noise level is high enough that proof-of-effort is the only thing that cuts through. Even if your contribution is a genuinely breakthrough insight that took 5 minutes to generate.
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Not saying you should do this. It’s not useful to have everybody working super hard in an effort to be helpful. Stadium effect. Everybody stands, nobody gets a better view, but everybody now pays more in effort.
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This is the messiest knowledge market I’ve ever seen. Heard a doctor say Twitter is the best place to find new info now. Multiply that by a million problems of varying degrees of severity. Everybody is just dumping everything they’re learning in a few giant piles.
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A 2nd order knowledge management response is: every distribution channel with any leverage at all is advertising a centralized repo branded “your one-stop shop” for Covid-19 updates. Every newspaper and social media platform has a section or button. Generic centralization race.
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Quick: do you know the best place to go to look for info on these topics? 1. Progress finding a treatment/cure 2. Epidemiology stats 3. Supply chain disruption updates for your city 4. Macroeconomic recovery 5. Sectoral microeconomic impact 6. Help for your particular needs
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Bet you don’t. The backstop answer for all of it is “ask on Twitter” because no source is curating information flows in a way that matches the specific needs of any specific sink. Info sources are producing what they can, info sinks are consuming what they can cobble together.
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There’s a need for Covid19 information brokers. The information supply chains were never meant to distribute this pattern of information. The ontology, time constants, QA..., everything is off. Even disinformation actors are struggling to exploit this, the confusion is that bad.
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Also, not all the information flow problems are equally important to solve at the same time. Some confusion can stay unresolved for a year or more without serious damage. Other confusion is causing avoidable deaths or avoidable bankruptcy right now.
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I debated quite a bit initially before pulling together the community thing. I decided to finally do it because I'd already been planning it, and it had a relatively clear supply-demand match for a focused community with fairly specific needs.
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If you DO take on an information-broker type task/responsibility, measure your success the right way. Are you matching info demand to supply in a meaningful way that's helping resolve actual problems on one end? Or are you just amplifying the generalized pissing into a tornado?
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