Re: Apropos of everything

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4705

Posted by sub
2005-12-12 01:53:47

> How did we ever get along without all of this marvelous PIM/Outlining/Info Storage/... software?

Ultimately, the human mind has tremendous abilities in information handling. I don’t think all these tools are really necessary—but that they provide significant advantage in at least three areas:

(1) Speeding up the process of data retrieval, therefore increasing one’s effectiveness by a factor of N
(2) Documenting one’s own knowledge and understanding
(3) Turning tacit knowledge to implicit, therefore promoting skill-sharing
alx

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