Organize how you use them differently.
- [[information]] is separate from people and can circulate independently of them
- data
- fact
- Text from the book
- [[knowledge]] is tightly coupled to a specific individual and difficult to distribute in isolation
- The work of detachment is, for example, the writing of a book.
- Significant costs involved.
- It will take a while again for the recipients of that information to make use of it.
- Individuals distributing themselves and
- Hard to scale
I sometimes use it wrong myself, so I’ll fix it as soon as I realize it.
Knowledge” and “information” in this distinction correspond to “tacit knowledge (knowledge management terminology)” and “explicit knowledge (knowledge management terminology” in Ikujiro Nonaka’s SECI Model.
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