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The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
the same qualities that make knowledge a virtue can also turn it into a vice. Knowledge shapes. Knowledge informs. It creates frameworks, labels, categories, and lenses through which we view the world. It acts as a haze, an Instagram filter, and a poetic structure under which we live our lives. These structures are notoriously hard to beat back, an
... See moreOzan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
The model of information retrieval often works counter to the aim of wisdom.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
But although people build Systems almost instinctively,[b. ] they do not lightly turn their ingenuity to the study of How Systems Work. That branch of knowledge is not congenial to human beings; it goes against the grain. Goal-oriented Man, the Upright Ape with the spear, is interested in the end-result. If the spear flies wide of the mark, Man is
... See moreJohn Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
Rivahardtowrite.com
Identifying and defining the hierarchy of mental content, which, in order of increasing value, are: data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. However, the educational system and most managers allocate time to the acquisition of these things that is inversely proportional to their importance.