Sublime

As the world becomes more complex, existing data platforms cannot keep up — and a lot of valuable knowledge remains trapped and not written down anywhere. Not even Google can index what is in our minds (not yet anyway). Some of the most valuable data in the world is the unstructured, tacit insights in our heads.

While the creation and full use of specialized knowledge often requires protective environments inside organizations, its value depends on broad openness and exchange at the network level. These two processes, taken together, suggest that dynamics of formation and dissolution of organizations are likely necessary for new information to be created a

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nurturing my idea Library happened in tools that were single player and the feeling of laboring away in these tools that were you know that that nobody would ever see that my children wouldn't get to see that weren't able to kind of give a a Serendipity or a useful Trail to somebody else wouldn't collide with other people's brains or thoughts um th

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I’ve also been fascinated for decades by the problems of knowledge management in organisations. How do they know what they know? Despite decades of investment and experiment, none of the systems used in business or government work very well. There are often strong disincentives to sharing knowledge, and it’s always a challenge to get people to tag

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Research publications are some of the world’s most important repositories for content and information ever created. They tie ideas and findings together across time and disciplines, and are forever preserved by a network of libraries. They are supported by evidence, analysis, expert insight, and statistical relationships. They are extremely valuabl... See more