I am just going to throw this out there and see if...
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I am just going to throw this out there and see if it resonates with others... Building on some of the concepts from "Thinking, fast and slow", I am wondering whether it is time to apply these concepts to conversations, communication and collaboration, within the context of knowledge refinement? "Fast" conversation platforms, such as Slack, Discord, Twitter etc... have their place but there does not seem to be any alternative for a "slow" conversation platform. A platform that would allow a group of people with common interests, to communicate together, with the aim of refining their (individual and collective) knowledge. The word "platform" might be misleading. I have been looking into whether we could piggy back on some existing platforms, like GitHub, to achieve the desired outcome. (Using open formats and being fully distributed (de-centralised) are important requirements. i.e. Each person would be able to keep a record of the conversation on their own computer.) A slow conversation starts with a note, a post or an article that has an "id". Other people can read it and reply to it with their own note, post or article with its own "id" as well as the "parent id" it relates to. The idea is to eventually be able to build a graph of the conversation and allow people within the group to reflect on the conclusions or the decisions made, at a future date, in order to refine and adjust the knowledge based on their experiential feedback. This might take weeks, months or years. (I did mention this would be "slow"....) Being able to record and accurately log the evolution of an important conversation could be valuable, especially if people take the time to reflect on it and refine it over time. Are others interested in exploring this further? In actually planning and experimenting to see what works and what doesn't, and keeping good records that we will refine in the process? (Does a solution like this already exist?)