History for TurningAnswersIntoStories

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My Goal: Turning Answers Into Stories

  Answers are only valuable to the degree that they are available to
  those with the motivating questions.  Without proper organization the
  plethora of answers made available my modern communications tend to
  hide eachother, making it hard to rediscover answers when you need
  them.  I see the crucial challenge being arranging for answer-organizing
  structures that scale - where everyone participating in the generation 
  and transmission of answers situates them in ways sensible to themselves 
  and to others with similar or related questions.  For want of a more
  precise way to express it, i am referring to these structures as stories, 
  and the holy grail as processes for promoting their construction,
  "turning answers into stories".

  A theme i'm coming to consider crucial is "seeing the forest for the 
  trees".  On one hand, people need to focus in on specific aspects of
  a situation in order to take action - we have to work on manageable 
  pieces at a time.  However, in order to work on the right thing in the
  first place, and produce something that others (or we, ourselves, as
  time passes) can use and integrate with their efforts, we have to 
  connect the results with other pieces of the world - we have to
  integrate, and document.  Generally, *someone* has to put the smaller
  pieces into larger contexts.

  I believe that the increased communications and synergy computers
  increases the amount that our efforts can - and will - have interplay
  with the efforts of others.  We can build upon and incoporate others
  work, and the ability for our own work to be integrated with that of
  others takes higher priority, as that integration is increasingly
  possible and productive.  What this implies to me is greater importance
  in being able to see how things fit together in the larger picture.