Knowledge growth curve is a faulty model

- [[Knowledge Growth Curve]]
- It is not clear what exactly the vertical axis is.

• I’m beginning to think it’s a false mental model.

• This kind of thinking makes the implicit assumption that “knowledge” corresponds to a one-dimensional value.

  • There is an implicit assumption as if only “knowledge in a particular field” can be isolated and measured in one dimensional values.

• The value of knowledge is not determined by knowledge alone. - Value is determined by the receiver, not the sender.

• Obviously, there’s something wrong when you think of the vertical axis as value.

• What exactly is the vertical axis?

• Principle that the learning curve is an S-curve?

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