Knowledge crystallizes through dialogue with oneself in the past, transcending time.

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  • Many stock type services simply bury the accumulated information because it does not generate notifications.

  • The one that did it well was Facebook, which is primarily a flow, but shows “what I posted years ago today”. - This Day in the Past” on Facebook

  • Sometimes we are reminded not by time, but by the actions of others. - Social Triggers we call them.

    • This was made possible by my blog, Slideshare and Twitter.
    • Make slides and publish them, and you will get mentions on Twitter.
  • By observing the content over many years, one can get a firsthand sense of the difference between content that will continue to be needed over the long term and content that will be consumed in a moment of excitement and never mentioned again.

    • He begins to think about focusing on the former.
  • Speaking from personal experience, the first book I wrote was about “new and interesting things” without a long-term perspective.

    • After seeing the sales for the effort and the subsequent rate of information obsolescence, I wanted to make sure that the next book would last five years worth of value.
    • That approach was correct.
    • So I started writing a book for the next 50 years.intellitech
    • For that writing, I created a system that allows me to cross-search all my past writings.
    • I realized keenly that even if you write good things on your blog or Twitter, they can easily be buried and “never happened.
    • I needed a different system, and that’s when I came across Scrapbox.

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