Thank you for the post! Inspiring content and super digestible form - impressive work!
"If you don’t have a way to fixate an idea in time and space, then you have to repeat it frequently to diminish the risk of losing precious knowledge."
This got me thinking. There are loads of brilliant books, manuscripts and internet articles. There is no lack of "great ideas" that come across one's mind in their life time. I believe the problem of today's society is not lack of written knowledge, or ability to read/write fast, but something else.
That something lies between ability to manage owns time and energy, ability to focus on important things, ability to be calm and mindful about own life. There are certain "mind progression" steps that individuals go through in their lives and with modern content availability it becomes very hard to find the way "forward".
Going 3.5x times faster is certainly very appealing as that gives us more time to fully enjoy our life and have more impact on the world with a mature, wise mind we develop. However the key appears to be the development itself, the path to enlightenment, not the speed of steps one makes on that journey.
Language is how humans develop though, so it's certainly at the center of all. I am very excited to learn (augment my intellect) from you Vasili - learn how you operate with symbols, words and sentences to build the most efficient information processing system :) Please keep posting!
Thank you so much! This means the world to me as a writer.
I’ve thought about this idea of desire for a while. I think Naval got it right when he said that learning means are abundant, and its the desire that is scarce. Developing this thought further, I believe that abundance of information promotes scarcity of thought; i.e., if google is two seconds away, you have bad incentives for thinking instead of looking it up. So the way we think certainly is going to change; this is somewhat inevitable given how deeply Google becomes integrated into our lives.
And, by the way, when you refer to “great ideas” on the internet, I think you really mean information but not knowledge. Knowledge is something you create when you extract the essence, the gist, the meaning that’s hidden behind the words.
Any thoughts on distributed knowledge? (Can't imagine single brain holding all the knowledge) Any effective models of synchronization between knowledge nodes? (heads)
Also, what's wisdom? How it correlates with knowledge? (I've head an idea that XXI century is a time for "wisdom workers")
This is going too far from the essay topic, I know - I can wait for more posts, just expressing the appetite :) Keep posting!
Thank you for the post! Inspiring content and super digestible form - impressive work!
"If you don’t have a way to fixate an idea in time and space, then you have to repeat it frequently to diminish the risk of losing precious knowledge."
This got me thinking. There are loads of brilliant books, manuscripts and internet articles. There is no lack of "great ideas" that come across one's mind in their life time. I believe the problem of today's society is not lack of written knowledge, or ability to read/write fast, but something else.
That something lies between ability to manage owns time and energy, ability to focus on important things, ability to be calm and mindful about own life. There are certain "mind progression" steps that individuals go through in their lives and with modern content availability it becomes very hard to find the way "forward".
Going 3.5x times faster is certainly very appealing as that gives us more time to fully enjoy our life and have more impact on the world with a mature, wise mind we develop. However the key appears to be the development itself, the path to enlightenment, not the speed of steps one makes on that journey.
Language is how humans develop though, so it's certainly at the center of all. I am very excited to learn (augment my intellect) from you Vasili - learn how you operate with symbols, words and sentences to build the most efficient information processing system :) Please keep posting!
Pascha
Thank you so much! This means the world to me as a writer.
I’ve thought about this idea of desire for a while. I think Naval got it right when he said that learning means are abundant, and its the desire that is scarce. Developing this thought further, I believe that abundance of information promotes scarcity of thought; i.e., if google is two seconds away, you have bad incentives for thinking instead of looking it up. So the way we think certainly is going to change; this is somewhat inevitable given how deeply Google becomes integrated into our lives.
And, by the way, when you refer to “great ideas” on the internet, I think you really mean information but not knowledge. Knowledge is something you create when you extract the essence, the gist, the meaning that’s hidden behind the words.
As for the stages of mind development, check out Kegan’s fivefold model here: https://youtu.be/BoasM4cCHBc.
And just a hint for what’s coming up next—language is only one of the tools we use ;)
Like the terminology, will adopt!
Information - external (petabytes, exabytes of data)
Knowledge - internal (processed information, essence)
Any thoughts on distributed knowledge? (Can't imagine single brain holding all the knowledge) Any effective models of synchronization between knowledge nodes? (heads)
Also, what's wisdom? How it correlates with knowledge? (I've head an idea that XXI century is a time for "wisdom workers")
This is going too far from the essay topic, I know - I can wait for more posts, just expressing the appetite :) Keep posting!
There’s no known capacity to how much data a brain can store; certainly the problem is in aging/cell destruction rather than storage.
In my view, being smart means having lots of books at home. But being wise is knowing which book to pick when you need it.
Thanks again for commenting!
Ps for knowledge management check out Engelbart’s work on DKRs
Looking forward to getting more next week
Of course! The next one is already cooking ;)