We are swimming in a sea
no, an ocean
of information.
The question is how to swim.
How to row a boat
How to move ahead, in a direction, to foreign shores, new ways of doing things, learning from the others, truly learning, not just registering vaguely that they have a personal experience, a personal understanding based on their context.
Far too often, we condition our involvement in a network with our own output, and how the networks reacts to that output. "Look at me! Read my blog!". Some networks are more prone to encourage such behaviour than others. Some networks are very good at giving the nodes tools to connect, really connect, the dots. The blog entries. To link them together, conceptually, and to follow the lead of other agents, agents who have been swimming these these shores, who have seen a few shores, who can make tangible links to ever new places, and also some old ones.
To link the old with the new. The well-known facts, basic assumptions, with the need for bleeding innovation.
We are swimming through that sea of information, to foreign shores. Hopefully, they will be foreign. Surprising. Not just mere "oh, that's interesting", but true eureka moments. Seeing how we might have had a limited approach to all these things. Limited and self-centered. What I can do to save the world myself. Me:Superstar
So, the question is: How do we become better swimmers? Are there ways we can get out of this series of little tubs of water, and swim in the larger sea, the larger ocean, of information? Where there are ever fewer boundaries. Boundaries between old information, and new. Information published by the MIT or Harvard scholar, and that of the 21-year old curious young man from Kenya. Between what is seen as useful, and what is seen as useless.
Sampling the streams of information, sampling, and mixing, and remixing, in ever new constellations.
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