Came across this beauty via Readwise's Weekly N° 12 (https://wise.readwise.io/issues/wisereads-vol-12/). While I'm intrigued by plenty of things in the post, the take on J. C. R. Licklider's memo “summoning the internet” hit a chord!
I'm currently in the process of building something like a new kind of research organisation. One element I'm looking at is, of course, the question of the “research calls.”
Looking at these from the perspective of the search query, I realised that the text of a research call is no less than “a powerful search query that will summon a new research program into life, including the people and organisations associated to it, the challenges they will be tackling, and eventually, the new technologies that the research will bring to live.”
Looking at it this way opens up so many incredible new perspectives of how to approach writing it, selling it, advertising it, and implementing it, I'm almost crying.
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
Came across this beauty via Readwise's Weekly N° 12 (https://wise.readwise.io/issues/wisereads-vol-12/). While I'm intrigued by plenty of things in the post, the take on J. C. R. Licklider's memo “summoning the internet” hit a chord!
I'm currently in the process of building something like a new kind of research organisation. One element I'm looking at is, of course, the question of the “research calls.”
Looking at these from the perspective of the search query, I realised that the text of a research call is no less than “a powerful search query that will summon a new research program into life, including the people and organisations associated to it, the challenges they will be tackling, and eventually, the new technologies that the research will bring to live.”
Looking at it this way opens up so many incredible new perspectives of how to approach writing it, selling it, advertising it, and implementing it, I'm almost crying.