Open-Source Knowledge

The more effectively we can share ideas, and treat them as composable pieces that are meant to be built upon, and iterated, the faster we'll progress in our ideas.

One of the mistakes we make is believing that information is meant to be established and authoritative. Outside of a highly select set of "eternal truths," most ideas are meant to be fluid.

The world has an information engine. If you can find the right "streams," or the right community, you can improve your own thinking by exposing your ideas to that specialized engine (regardless of whether you're right or wrong.)

More people should be willing to change their minds. More people should treat their ideas like software that is open source, and in active development. Instead, people treat their ideas like a bridge; stable, but slowly decaying.