Everything Is Connected
exploring how there are no fields, topics, or silos - everything is connected
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Everything Is Connected
There is a Zulu phrase, ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’, which means ‘A person is a person through other persons.’
People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.
Reality is Scarce
A knowledge base that looked for new connections within itself would be less of a memory system, as notes conventionally are, and become more of a generative tool. Generative tools are exciting because they contain real infinites that invite endless play and exploration.
Linus Lee • Knowledge tools, finite and infinite | thesephist.com
The “problem” with expanding the web of connected things is that “right” answers become few and far between. Instead of a “next step,” you see more questions. Instead of the confidence of an “action plan,” you feel the gentle anxiety of ambiguity.
Tara McMullin • A Call To Action
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instagram.comComplexity basically means that everything is circuitous and hard to understand. Hard to understand means that the things that lead to the things you want aren't the things you want. They're very complex. So you need to do things like work on vacuum tubes to get to computers because vacuum tubes are in the first computers, even though vacuum tubes... See more