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DATA TO WISDOM - Dee W Hock
Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking up
... See moreDee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning. (Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves... See more
Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational,... See more