This reminds me of my Grandpa telling me that it's more important to know how to find information than it is to remember everything. While this is at least partially true, I firmly believe that if you don't have a base level of knowledge, what you find won't make any sense and you won't be able to use it. You have to be able to place that info you find in a structure somewhere! I think that is a similar concept to what you have outlined here. Thanks for sharing!
We deal with an awful lot of information today, and while we don't need a perfect place for everything, it's highly beneficial to use a folder structure to "divide and conquer."
While I was mainly talking about your digital file system here, as you point out, the same argument applies to the knowledge we carry in our heads. There's factual knowledge we can look up, and there's a general mental model for making sense of things. Factual knowledge is the equivalent of a file, and the mental model is the equivalent of a folder structure.
It's not a precise analogy, but it's an interesting one to sit with.
This reminds me of my Grandpa telling me that it's more important to know how to find information than it is to remember everything. While this is at least partially true, I firmly believe that if you don't have a base level of knowledge, what you find won't make any sense and you won't be able to use it. You have to be able to place that info you find in a structure somewhere! I think that is a similar concept to what you have outlined here. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Robin, exactly.
We deal with an awful lot of information today, and while we don't need a perfect place for everything, it's highly beneficial to use a folder structure to "divide and conquer."
While I was mainly talking about your digital file system here, as you point out, the same argument applies to the knowledge we carry in our heads. There's factual knowledge we can look up, and there's a general mental model for making sense of things. Factual knowledge is the equivalent of a file, and the mental model is the equivalent of a folder structure.
It's not a precise analogy, but it's an interesting one to sit with.