Conversion from flow to stock

• Try to organize [Flow to stock conversion (raw)

  • The concepts of flow and stock are vague.
    • stream, accumulate, and words that remind me of
  • But even in Slack, where chats flow, logs are accumulated and subject to search.
  • Pages that are not written and maintained and no longer referenced in wikis, which are supposed to be places to store information.
    • It’s no different than drifting away.
  • Therefore, I don’t think the “Flow ←→ Accumulate” cutoff is very appropriate.

• I’m interested in detailed output and assembling it later as a means of increasing personal intellectual productivity.

  • This “small stuff” and “later assembled stuff” is a composition similar to flow and stock
  • Smaller ones, imagine one line of chat posts, one tweet, etc.
    • Writing multi-paragraph sentences on groupware is not part of the “little ones” for me.
  • When multiple people are interacting in real time in a chat room, it tends to be a list of small things.
  • I understand there is a need to assemble it as a document to be referenced later.
  • As for my “small stuff”, the only requirement is that the size of the output is small.
    • Whether you’re interacting with others or not is another matter.
  • For example, if you keep a one-line diary, it is a “small one”

• If you are trying to communicate with others to make something “small,” it is tricky when they speak in long sentences

  • Troublesome, at least for tools that flow one-dimensionally.
  • It is tempting to refer to more than one part of a single statement by the other party.
    • but because of the scarcity of means to point to a specific position in the sentence.
    • Permalinks may be per post or per line.

• Different individuals often use the same word with different meanings

  • The implicit assumption that word X would mean Y is often rejected
  • Creating a large text with insufficient sharing is like building a tower with bricks that have not been solidified.

• What does that “stock” look like? The question must be asked

  • My “stock” is a combination of small outputs that have been combined and enlarged after the fact.

• What is its “combination”?

  • Not everything is good.
    • For example, just putting them in chronological order would be a “combined big one”.
    • But I am looking for a better “way to combine”.
    • Chronological summary is a “better than nothing” summary

• How they should be combined is influenced by what they are combined for.

  • think in concrete terms
    • Let’s say you ask some technical question, we communicate, and the problem is solved.
      • To sum this up.
        • You can find people who have encountered similar problems.
        • The person’s problem is solved without having to discuss it again.
      • This is Summary Purpose.
    • If you’re looking for explanatory documentation for a library, you can use
      • First, we provide a “tutorial that allows first-time readers to learn what they need to know.
      • Then, explanations for various frequent needs
      • Then follows an API reference organized hierarchically so that if you want to know more, you can find it

• Creating red links in Scrapbox is a preparation in the hope that they will be connected to other things in the future and create value. - Preparing to create value, or

  • Preparations to create value for customers and users can only be made after customers and users are clearly identified.
  • So the first would be “Prepare yourself for future reuse”
  • Take the time to think about it because it’s a topic you value.
    • The output of the thought process is important to deepen the thinking on the subject.
    • Looking back over time When you get into an argument with your past self.
    • Sometimes your future self disagrees with an opinion you thought you had at a certain time.
    • If you don’t record it, you won’t know when your opinion has changed.
    • Record and Notice the difference to become a [Comprehensive Opportunities
      • Multiple perspectives to think from.

• My frustration with the current public Scrapbox is that I can’t write anything that can’t be published there.

  • Everything should go into the same place and connect with each other.
  • Book excerpts, discussions on private groupware, etc.
  • Everything should be connected.

• What is “connected”?

  • that Can be related ex post facto. that are written out at different times or from different sources.
    • Human memory is poor. So not all objects can be kept as association targets.
    • So, we leave retention to electronic systems (and paper).
  • You never know in advance what to combine with what.
    • So you discover the combination after the fact and gradually grow it into a larger system!

• Why is it good to [be brought up with tenderest care in a good family

  • I don’t have to do Discovering Connections again, because I can do something more efficient by following the connections I discovered in the past.

    • What efficiency?
      • Exploration?
        • Discovering New Connections ？

  • Ideas are new connections of existing ones

    • Distant connections are more likely to produce beneficial results.

  • In other words, Increase the probability that useful ideas will be generated.

  • Become the mother womb of ideas

• How do we go from having some large text on the groupware to the preferred state?

  • Once chew up small pieces of something big, you need a mechanism
    • Whether it’s done by a human or a machine is beside the point.
  • What exactly does it mean to bite off more than you can chew?
    • It doesn’t look like you can just carve it into sentence units.
      • semantic bundle need to be nipped out
      • Long-lived lumps and [A mass that will die soon
      • We need to create small chunks of long-lived
    • The whole “fair and square” thing is established as a long-lived little blob.
    • This too can only be known after the fact.
    • After cutting out, Test of Time will tell you
    • As a result, only the long-lived ones remain.
    • So we should [Review again in due time
      • What was left of value in that review will be the subject of another timed review.
      • A cycle like this is needed.

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