Knowledge & participatory management...a computer analogy might be that stuff you know yourself is like data in RAM, or even in the CPU cache, whereas knowledge possessed by other members of a group is like data on disk. You need both, but if there's nothing in the RAM, then the process isn't going to work very well. See my post thinking and memorizing.
Also, did you get the email I sent you a couple of weeks ago?
I think your analogy works especially if we think of group knowledge as a really big hard drive that has no rational filing structure. Trying to find the useful knowledge means wading through really messy data dumps.
Good post on thinking and memory. Some related thoughts here:
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Knowledge & participatory management...a computer analogy might be that stuff you know yourself is like data in RAM, or even in the CPU cache, whereas knowledge possessed by other members of a group is like data on disk. You need both, but if there's nothing in the RAM, then the process isn't going to work very well. See my post thinking and memorizing.
Also, did you get the email I sent you a couple of weeks ago?
I think your analogy works especially if we think of group knowledge as a really big hard drive that has no rational filing structure. Trying to find the useful knowledge means wading through really messy data dumps.
Good post on thinking and memory. Some related thoughts here:
http://leadandgold.blogspot.com/2006/04/knowledge-this-is-great-article-how.html
Also, i apologize for the delay in answering you email. I did so this morning.
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