Dave GuarinoAug 3, 2023
Email is not a tool for thought.
Show threadBoris MannAug 3, 2023

@allafarce I am so excited to share with you the classic Bill French quote:

"Email is where knowlege goes to die"

It made me go add it to my tool for thought so I could link to it: https://notes.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/64caf7f2-3f1d-4969-95f1-6f406d9033f6

Show threadThomas Vander WalAug 4, 2023

@boris @boris @allafarce I’ve used the heck out of that saying for about 15 years. It was part of my intro slides for most enterprise conference talks and workshops.

I used, “Email is where knowledge goes to die. Immediately.”

Show threadrolandAug 4, 2023
@vanderwal @boris @boris @allafarce alas bill french's 2003 post on his website 404's but my blog post from 2007 doesn't :-) http://rolandtanglao.com/2007/02/08/email-is-the-place-where-knowledge-goes-to-die-boris/
Email is the place where knowledge goes to die Boris!

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Show threadThomas Vander WalAug 4, 2023

@roland @boris @boris @allafarce In 2004 Bill French points to himself saying it in 1999 in Austrailia. http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2005/10/10/email-must-die/

Which explains seeing it stated and quoted, but sadly not attributed in 2001 searches.

Email must die! | Karen Blakeman's Blog

Show threadrolandAug 4, 2023
@vanderwal @boris @boris @allafarce 1999! Even better! Email wasn't a knowledge management platform / tool for thought even back in the 1990s! We all knew that then but I think it took years for it to sink in!
Show threadrolandAug 6, 2023
@vanderwal @boris @boris @allafarce LOL i have a blog post for everything :-) around personal knowledge management or something :-) ! and bill french probably does too :-)
Show threadThomas Vander WalAug 6, 2023
@roland @boris @boris @allafarce between my two blogs, my personal DevonThink with ~70k entries, and my personal notes I have a lot of things covered. But there are gaps. I need to get blogging again and share notes outward.
Show threadroland
@vanderwal @boris @boris @allafarce i think but am probably wrong :-) :
leaving that knowledge private is great but if you can post what's appropriate publicly it's even more powerful. But our tools don't make it easy to seamlessly blend public and private and semi-private! it's either public or private it seems and anything in between is hard and ignored by those creating the tools!
Aug 6, 2023 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadBoris MannAug 6, 2023

@roland @vanderwal and regardless of public/private, we’re missing multiplayer.

Looking forward to trying out Subconscious and the #Noosphere protocol later this year.

I’m hoping for some capabilities around backlinks / linking / aggregation of terms that we haven’t seen since the pre-spam Technorati years.

Show threadrolandAug 6, 2023
@boris @vanderwal yes multi-player! always forget that!
Show threadThomas Vander WalAug 6, 2023
@boris @roland Thanks for the reminder about Subconscious. There are a few things I’m needing to keep closer and keep attention on and this is one.
Show threadThomas Vander WalAug 6, 2023
@roland @boris @boris @allafarce This public, private, semi-private and the related process for capture and then select where posting that to is something I mapped out around 2005 and walked a lot of tool makers through that model of captures first, then sort out where it goes, and manage from there. Many tools shifted to that, but that is mostly gone now (again). It really needs to come back.