Sublime

When we delegate the storage of knowledge to the slip-box and at the same time focus on the principles behind an idea while we write, add and connect notes, when we look for patterns and think beyond the most obvious interpretation of a note, when we try to make sense of something, combine different ideas and develop lines of thought, we do exactly

that a map captures a territory at a moment in time. Just because it might have done a good job at depicting what was, there is no guarantee that it depicts what is there now or what will be there in the future. The faster the rate of change in the territory, the harder it will be for a map to keep up to date.

BRINTON TO BERTIN TO TUKEY TO TUFTE

piece of information, the easier it is to retrieve,

If you could limit the information you give people to four items, that would actually be a great idea, but you don’t have to be that drastic. You can use more pieces of information as long as you group and chunk.

As well as being a social practice, mapping is fuzzy, intuitive and qualitative. As a result, you may find the process uncomfortably free-form at first. How do you know where anything goes? Once you’ve put a few stakes in the ground in the form of starter trends, you can then begin to position additional trends, perhaps shifting those already place