Neil, What do you mean about the "relationality" of knowledge? How one bit is related to an others?
Alex 2010/1/26 Neil Olonoff <[email protected]> > 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]<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. 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