Monthly Archives: November 2016

Let’s get practical — Part 3 (capturing text)

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Phil Murray

As I mentioned in Let’s get practical — Part 2, I follow the practice of capturing information from sources (mostly online) and saving it in discrete, labeled chunks. I use a similar process for Insights: Write an idea down as … Continue reading →

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My goals … and biases

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Phil Murray

You can’t apply technology and supporting strategies effectively to a resource if that resource does not have a well-understood model. Applying technology to the superficial (or imagined) properties of an un-modeled resource — for example, all the text in the … Continue reading →

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Abusing [American] English

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Phil Murray

I love reading informative articles and books that use English in fresh ways. Language is a living thing, after all. But the media are doing their best to butcher it. (Of course, now everyone belongs to the “media.”) Words we … Continue reading →

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What are the characteristics of a good model for practical knowledge?

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Phil Murray

Wikipedia credits statistician George Box with the phrase, “All models are wrong but some are useful.” Box repeated the aphorism in a paper that was published in the proceedings of a 1978 statistics workshop.[2] The paper contains a section entitled … Continue reading →

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Representing practical knowledge with ICKMOD — an example

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Phil Murray

When Néstor Sánchez, developer of Instrumind ThinkComposer (“TC”), made a succinct but important comment on this blog, I decided to represent his ideas and their connections with some thoughts expressed by John Bottoms and with my own thoughts — using … Continue reading →

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