Now
A long process of building and planning has been merging into an array of business and academic routines, which I have long held ready to execute.
A key interest is applied personal knowledge management for use in documentation processes. Documentation remains an especially important exercise, perhaps not because of the new techniques of scanning and processing data afforded by large language models, but certainly at least despite it. More than ever, the ability to organize information for specific purposes matters.
I'm wrapping up a four-and-a-half-year tenure as an office clerk for a doctors' office. I know how important the presentation and availability of information can be, how data entry and the narrative framing of data can determine options and influence outcomes. In the long run, I'll help people and business collect their documents in ways that can be efficiently managed and consistently read by AI in order to enable definitive productive action.
That kind of action is what I am putting in to practice right now, revisiting the business concept for which I obtained a DBA in 2017. This work is informed by the culmination of my study of hypermedia. SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Information Design and Technology prorgam has been a long and intertwingled road, branching off to all my other interests and winding along twisty little passages toward hiddden relevance to today’s workplaces and economies.
The information economy presents us with the question, If we were to really consider these problems, if we were to really put in a best effort at connecting the dots, if we were to assemble all the digital representations available, if we were to apply all available intelligence to our curated information ecosystems deliberately, what accomplishments once thought out of reach could we now achieve? What personal and organizational dreams could be not accomplish now, if we were to let the information live?
Now is the time. I'm also interested in things like Esperanto, interactive fiction, scripting (programming) languages, Linux, and philosophical topics like (Christian) existentialism and neo-orthodoxy in digital postmodern society. We could talk about it.