Thanks.

It is important. As among many groups that I am enrolled into (most where I am a quite spectator... lack of time), it is only TOK there is a sensible size core group of major contributors. Otherwise most such groups turn into one/two emitters others absorbers or skippers. In contrast, TOK has much larger emitter-participants. And this is pretty rare.

So congrats to you on being a great manager in building this group. I personally believe that while there could be people who believe & are convinced of TOK, there could be others who don't subsequently (that too is an apparent progression). Nonetheless, what's important is that even those, who don't take away great learning and a perennial source of intellect available in the group to be used as a sounding board for new & novel ideas.

I think a well-drafted & declared policy that allows and rather enables people to share their proprietary information in a closed group without fear of it being lost could be another valuable outcome from a few committed intellectuals & academicians getting together.

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Thanks, Deepak.

 

This is an excellent point and I like the way you framed it here. Indeed, I very much see the next phase of development bringing these kinds of efforts along so that the “TOK team” can foster contributions and emergence across a wide variety of different domains.

 

Best,
Gregg

 

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Gregg,

Only an online glossary with easy bookmark hyperlinks from which anyone writing a blog on UTOK (not only you) can provide links will be the right thing.
My suggestions might seem mundane, but from a Ux/Ui point of view these are crucial. I see the effort that the entire TOK team does to make new thinking & ideas happen, but if these ideas are not catalogued meticulously there is bound to be loss of information & ideas, besides which, there will be lack of recognition for those contributing, which is important so that more and more people are encouraged to contribute.

 

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On 11/17/2020 4:47 PM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:

Hi Deepak,

 

  Thanks for your comment about the trade off regarding acronyms. You are correct that it is not ideal for newcomers, and can be intellectually taxing.

 

  Re the glossary, see attached. It needs an update, as it was last done in 2018, but I have developed one.

Best,
Gregg

 

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Gregg,

A quick suggestion.
Acronyms forge camaraderie among the code-sharing; but make you less interesting and less impregnable for the newcomers. Because memory of common concepts & acronyms are both the cost of entry and among these two later is an avoidable cost that may be exempt from extraction from newcomers.

Rest to your & colleague's prudence.

Secondly, you should have a glossary maintained in a disciplined manner, which can be collectively created else its impossible to sustain interest. If I have to read another article to understand the current one, it becomes a chain of articles to read, for understanding the one I am interested in. This discourages.
Glossary can have Book mark hyperlinks, so that within a large glossary page, I will see precisely that which I desire to rather than proceeding from 'd' to 'p' to find the definition or meaning of Psychology.

A good glossary is mandatory. Even though acronyms should be avoided as much as possible.

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On 11/16/2020 7:10 PM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:

I forgot to mention that I would like to thank Anjan Katta for the title and frame of this blog. It was his idea to frame the UTOK in this way.

Best,

Gregg

 

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Hi TOK Folks,

 

  I published my second Medium article today:

https://medium.com/unified-theory-of-knowledge/where-we-have-been-where-we-could-be-going-1523d78670a6

 

Best,
Gregg

 

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