• It is important to know the developmental process of the concept
    • nishio.iconI wonder what I saw the line “I don’t know…
  • for some reason - Taking the top of the pyramid is not what I expected.
    • If you only input completed concepts, they will float in the air and not become knowledge that can be applied. - Knowledge of Rootless Grass
  • On the other hand, looking at things in chronological order in that order doesn’t tell you where you’ll end up.
    • Anxious to walk without knowing the goal
  • What should we do?
  • With books and such, the man-hours are spent on devising the sequence.
    • But it’s Killing Chaos at some point, and then it’s chopped up and laid out.
    • New growth sprouts even as you are writing, but because you have decided on the structure ahead of time, it grows crippled.
  • The reason why the approach of doing a book in Scrapbox is not very fruitful when Scrapbox is useful as a means of expressing knowledge is that Scrapbox is a living chaos and a book is dead chaos, so the process of making it book-like kills the goodness of Scrapbox. Scrapbox is a living chaos, and books are dead chaos.
    • Instead of creating books, we must create “features that are beneficial to readers that books have and Scrapbox does not” while taking advantage of Scrapbox’s strengths.
      • What exactly is that? - unidimensionalization Right, readers say, “I don’t know where to start reading.”

for now - One-Dimensional English Engineer’s Intellectual Production on Scrapbox


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