Reading the network display

There was a discussion about wanting to know what a non-creator would read when they see the Interactive Graph displayed on a page that [/villagepump/Quartz publishes Obsidian Vault](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/Quartz publishes Obsidian Vault).

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• Two things caught my attention after seeing this

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• I thought it was interesting to compare each page and see the differences.

  • A is a raw writing that has been written in a flow state for an interesting thought topic
  • B is a sentence that has been cut out and polished clean
  • I got the impression that

• I felt that B was an abstraction created (abstraction product)

• Is B easy to understand?

  • This depends on the state of knowledge of the recipient.
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    • from How to give knowledge to those who lack knowledge
  • Understanding X, a product of abstraction, requires knowledge to support it
    • You can’t understand it if you’re given just X with no knowledge of it.
      • Taking the top of the pyramid is not what I expected.
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• So if you read B in this case and don’t understand it, maybe you should read A and then read it again.

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    • X now has road to (figurative) enlightenment graphically visualized so it’s easier to find.
  • Ideally, you’d read all the pages surrounding B and then re-read B to better understand it.

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    • But this is high cost

Expressions in a different order

• Suppose we want to understand some abstract concept X

  • Ideally, you’d read all the surrounding pages before reading it to better understand it.
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    • But this is high cost
  • So read road to (figurative) enlightenment on X
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    • Graphical visualization made it easier to find.

• Tend to think of pages that are linked from many concepts as “important pages” in the PageRank metaphor

  • However, it is often “highly abstract page.
  • Because Highly abstract concepts have a wide range of applications. from, coupled with more
  • Increased abstraction does not equal good.
    • You’re abstracting too much.
    • The process of abstraction to the minimum necessary is important.
      • This sentence is about “in the writer’s thinking process”
      • I’m not talking about “for informational purposes.”
      • Abstract concepts are easily communicated or misunderstood, but they have no choice Books are already a product of abstraction, because readers are not used to having the process shared.

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