Getting better at getting better
‘The better we get at getting better, the better and faster we’ll get better.’ —Doug Englebart in Accelerating Change 2004: Doug Engelbart Keynote Address on YouTube
This rings as true today as it ever did. We need better tools to help us think and process more and more complex information.
tools for thought
Ways to externalise our thinking, make more or less concrete concepts of our abstraction, we are able to free up cognitive capacity to think about more difficult problems.
This also needs to happen together. We need to build tools and methods together and we need to collaborate using these tools and methods.