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We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
(a thread on why)
(a thread on why)
1/ The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips. While this presents enormous opportunities, our brains are not equipped to deal with this abundance.
2/ Curation is a potential solution - we’ll pay people with good taste to help us sort through the abundance. But there’s a few problems 
3/ We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a list of links with some commentary on an organized schedule. But this format is subject to the same accidental property of social media; ephemerality.
4/ The conversation around curation has focused too much on reducing the amount of information, and too little on what other architectures might be possible outside of the feeds or newsletters we’ve grown accustomed to
5/ Our feed-based information architecture has made us obsessive consumers of the present, yet largely indifferent to the archives of the past.
6/ We have forgotten that the goal is not to read more. The goal is to think better, so we can achieve our goals.
7/ The Internet offers us the first major opportunity to introduce new, digitally-native information architectures that improve our understanding of the world through added context and relation
8/ The past few years have seen the rise of many knowledge management tools, online communities, and curation businesses.
But what’s interesting is how these categories are remixing into new combinations of content, community, and software.
But what’s interesting is how these categories are remixing into new combinations of content, community, and software.
9/
We need curation to help us filter what we consume
We need knowledge management to add structure, memory, and goal-orientation to our information stream
We need community to tap into networked knowledge
We need curation to help us filter what we consume
We need knowledge management to add structure, memory, and goal-orientation to our information stream
We need community to tap into networked knowledge
10/
The intersection of all three: community-curated knowledge networks
this space.
The intersection of all three: community-curated knowledge networks
this space.
11/ There are reasons to be optimistic; the economic feasibility of paid communities, a renewed interest in curation, a slow move away from big social, and an improved understanding of platform incentives.
You can read the full post here: https://sariazout.substack.com/p/check-your-pulse-55
Thank you to @_brandswell @MarieDOLLE @tobyshorin @prakharshivam @wacko_gabriel @Jad_AE for reading drafts of this post
Thank you to @_brandswell @MarieDOLLE @tobyshorin @prakharshivam @wacko_gabriel @Jad_AE for reading drafts of this post
One last thing: I’m working on something in this space.
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