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Don't Pay For Philosophy

Blogs. RSS. Information aggregators. Human-friendly content management and delivery systems. These trends and more are a formula for the rapid proliferation of information and knowledge. Taken to it's logical conclusion, it's not hard to see how in the future all--or most--information will be freely obtainable from more than one media source.

There are too many gurus pushing the same information products. Too many books to read, magazines to buy, websites to check. Selling "make-more-money" information products is fast becoming a losing proposition because the information wants to get out.

What does that mean for people in knowledge-based businesses? Get out of the way and let it. People are suddenly in the market for execution. They're realizing that despite their best efforts to keep up with the knowledge curve, they aren't getting anything done by themselves. They want to bring in impact players who can do the things they read about.

Which is the basis on which I'm going to build my consulting practice.

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 01:00AM by Registered CommenterTy in | Comments2 Comments

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Keeping up to speed can kill the efforts of an "originative intellectual worker". Those who succeed will develop the ability to stand back from it all. Delineating between what is surface texture and what's really new is something we're going to have to get a grip on. You can either be a reporter of the "news" or you can make the news. You can't be both.
Friday, May 20, 2005 at 12:40AM | Unregistered CommenterJohn Evans
I like the idea of the "originative intellectual worker." It feels like me, and feels like you too. I've been grappling with a way to characterize the difference between "some blogs" and "all the others", and you have helped me. Ultimately, that's what blogging is all about: pinning down our collective interpretations of the universe and helping each other become more aware people. Whether your contribution is to originate the ideas or to report on them, we are all to some degree participating in the larger purpose of the web.
Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 05:26AM | Registered CommenterTy

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