Alex, Regarding KM and Fractals. There are KM folks studying and writing about groups and organizations as complex adaptive systems. Personally, I am more focused on small group dynamics and the "relationality" of knowledge, so I'm at the other end of the spectrum.
I guess crowdsourcing is an example of employing a complex systems perspective to accomplish knowledge tasks. Complexity Neil Olonoff [email protected] Lead, Federal Knowledge Management Initiative, Federal KM Working Group hosted at http://KM.gov Office: 703.614.5058 (US Army HQDA, G-4/Contracted by Innolog) Mobile: 703.283.4157 (Disabled during working hours) Personal profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/olonoff Blogging at http://FedKM.org On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Alex Hough <[email protected]>wrote: > Jeremy, > > Can you be drawn a bit more on fractals and self similarity? I think it > would be beneficial to hear about some of the abstract motivations behind > your creation. This way, TW fans perhaps could understand something at a > more abstract level thus enabling them to solve some of the problems that > FND identified associated with stymying deeper understanding. > > The everything is a tiddler - the pageTemplate, ViewTemplate, stylesheet - > is to my mind kind of fractal. Each is similar but smaller to the previous > but smaller. > > Neil, > I wonder if in knowledge management there are issues relating to fractals > as well. I am thinking about Godel. > > > > Alex > ps. new strapline : TiddlyWiki a funky non-linear fractal knowledge > management tool > > > 2010/1/26 Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> > > I really like Måns' comment: >> >> > Sometimes I see TiddlyWiki as an almost therapeutic tool - >> > I think of an almost unmanagable problem - break it up into smaller >> > pieces - make each piece work and put them together again - and I >> > discover that the BIG problem already has been solved in the >> > process... - it's magic... and one of the things I've learned from >> > this group. (And I'm *not* using mptwGTD - whatever...) >> >> That's beautiful, I love the idea of TiddlyWiki as a productive >> displacement activity. >> >> To answer Alex's earlier question about whether all my projects are >> like this - firstly, I've never had the privilege of being involved >> with anything like TiddlyWiki before, in the sense of being in the >> middle of a community of actual people. Perhaps the closest thing is >> the software teams I've managed over the years, at BTC, Dresdner, On >> Board Info, Interactive1, and now, finally, Osmosoft. When I think of >> those teams I suspect that I don't really see the commonality, because >> it is likely to stem rather directly from my own behaviour/values >> etc., which I'm kind of blind to. Anyhow, I adore working with other >> people, and building and shaping a team is one of the exquisite >> pleasures available to someone with my desire to build things. >> >> When I was a teenager I was kind of a hippy; I remember at 19 finally >> figuring out to my own satisfaction what the purpose of life is - I >> decided it was to love, and be loved. Which is possibly a bit naive >> from some perspectives. Anyhow, you may be able to glean better >> insights from this interview when I was 17: >> >> http://jermolene.com/2007/06/05/young-jerm/ >> >> One further thought is that it feels very much to me as though this >> version of TiddlyWiki is version "n" of a single product that I've >> spent my life striving to design. I hope that we are all still >> together in 20 years, putting the finishing touches to TiddlyWiki2030, >> with support for millions of tiddlers, and some kind of funky zoomy >> fractal visualisation that helps you perceive and shape connections >> and links. >> >> Cheers >> >> Jeremy >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> http://www.tiddlywiki.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
