About the Research
Please remember that
this website is not the finished product.
This website is still in
research mode and is still a work in progress. This is only the
first draft.
There is more
organizing,
editing,
developing and
processing
that
is still needed before
knowledge translation and
knowledge mobilization is applied. This is when BK101
will go
from an
abstract summary to more of an
executive
summary
style format. For now, instead of personal
notes being in the margins,
the notes are embedded in the text. The notes are
mostly questions and
ideas about some of the ways on how to use knowledge and information effectively and efficiently.
BK101 is filled with conversation starters, and
these are the
conversations that everyone needs to have. We need to reduce confusion
and uncertainty. There's just too many vulnerabilities that comes from not
understanding yourself and not understanding the world around you. There
is no benefit to living with ignorance, absolutely none.
Instructions -
How to use
this Website -
How this Project Began -
Knowledge Integration Prototype is an
early sample and a temporary model of a product
that is built to
test a
concept or
process, or to act as a thing to be
replicated from or learned from.
Knowledge Goals
Self-Archiving is the act of the author's depositing a
free copy of an
electronic document online in order to provide
open access to it.
The term usually refers to the self-archiving of
peer-reviewed research
journal and conference articles, as well as theses and
book chapters,
deposited in the author's own institutional
repository or open archive for the purpose of maximizing its
accessibility, usage and
citation impact. The term green open access has become common in
recent years, distinguishing this approach from gold open access, where
the journal itself makes the articles publicly available without charge to the reader.
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Translation is all of the activities involved in
moving
research from the laboratory, the research journal, and the academic
conference
into the hands of people and organizations who can put it to
practical use.
Risk
Communication.
I have been writing
readable
definitions of words for 16 years, and I'm just getting started.
Knowledge Mobilization refers to
moving available knowledge
from research into
active use. KMb seeks to make connections between research/expertise
and policy/practice in order to improve outcomes in various
organizations or sectors. KMb involves
knowledge sharing and
bridging
the gap.
Transferable is
something capable of being moved or
conveyed from one place to another.
Legally transferable to the
ownership of another. Financial assets, liabilities, or legal rights are
able to be transferred or made over to the possession of another person.
Open.
Transfer is to move something from one
place to another. The act of moving something from one location to
another. The act of transferring something from
one form to another.
Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar
situation.
Transition
-
Stages.
Technology Transfer is the process of transferring
or
disseminating technology from the places and in groups of its
origination
to wider distribution among more people and places.
Diffusion is the property of being
dispersed or
distributed over a wide area and moved outward or spread out
in order to cause something to
become widely known. Diffusion in mythology
is the spread of skills from one society to another. Diffusion is physics
the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high
concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration.
Distribution is the act of
spreading and
dispersing something
throughout a given area according to a plan. To
make something available and
cause something to
become
widely known.
Technology Readiness Level
is a method for estimating the
maturity of
technologies during the acquisition phase of a program. The use of
TRLs enables consistent, uniform discussions of technical maturity across
different types of technology. Original NASA TRL Definitions (1989). Level
1 – Basic Principles Observed and Reported. Level 2 – Potential
Application Validated. Level 3 – Proof-of-Concept Demonstrated,
Analytically and/or Experimentally. Level 4 – Component and/or Breadboard
Laboratory Validated. Level 5 – Component and/or Breadboard Validated in
Simulated or Realspace Environment. Level 6 – System Adequacy Validated in
Simulated Environment. Level 7 – System Adequacy Validated in Space.
Development.
Knowledge Market
is a mechanism for distributing knowledge resources.
Knowledge is a public good and
should always be available. This is often referred to as
attention economy.
Outline of BK101 Goals (basic summary)
When beginning any
investigation, one of your first
priorities is to find out what is known?
So
how much do we know so far? This starts with witnesses, documents
and facts. I'm nearing
peak
information, which is the maximum rate of
production or the
maximum rate at which something can be
processed.
Education Reform.
So for now in 2024, this is mainly the research along with some
comments and
some personal
thoughts and
notes. Some of this research is
observational. So more work is needed to define
cause-and-effect relationships, as well as, other
contributing factors that would help
explain the
information more clearly. This website acts as a kind of
test for
cognitive dissonance and
cognitive bias, so
unintentionally it
filters out ignorance, which for the
moment might discourage some people from reading more and learning
more.
This is a problem that will be corrected, because
knowledge and information should be encouraging, and not
be
discouraging.
Don't
jump to conclusions
or
overreact
when
reading things that you don't agree with.
I don't assume that I am
the
source of this knowledge and information.
A Higher Calling
A Higher Calling is a cause that
summons you and
inspires you to
change your current path in life for a life of greater
moral importance
and
purpose. A higher
calling is to focus your work and effort towards
something that is more important and
more valuable and more
beneficial to humanity, something that will
make a difference. A
higher calling is a
change in your destiny that goes way
beyond what you originally planned to do in your life. This is something
that you have to do in order to preserve life for all, and if you don't do
it, you may regret it the rest of your life.
A man's got to do what a man's got to do is
a saying that means that a man must do what they feel needs to be done,
even if it's
dangerous and
difficult or has
consequences.
A man must do whatever is
essential or necessary in order to achieve a
goal.
"One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, one life can change the world."
Idealist is someone who
envisions an
ideal world and knows that the world can be a
better place, so the idealist
works hard to achieve a positive change. The idealist is someone who is a
catalyst for change. They see injustice in the world and they work toward
ideal solutions. The idealist believes that the ideal solution—no matter
how difficult—can be achieved through education, kindness, love, and hard
work. The idealist has an altruistic view of the world and believes that
good things can be achieved, just as they have in the past. The idealist
is a
visionary and a
person who pursues noble principles, purposes and goals, even when the
odds look horrible. An idealist is someone who tends to see things in an
ideal manner. They see the world as being a better place than it is now. A
realist is someone who tends to have a
more pragmatic or practical view of things. A realist sees the world as it
actually is, and thus can feel
trapped in the status quo, so they become a
passive and they never seek
to improve things. The main root of idealist is "ideal," which comes from
the Latin word
idea.
Philosophy of the Mind.
My Cross to Bear means that a
person purposely or indirectly takes on a responsibility and position on a
issue, and they must live with this hardship and deal with an unpleasant
situation. The term cross to bear comes from Jesus being forced to carry
the cross on which he was to be crucified.
Hero's Journey
involves a
hero who goes on an
adventure,
learns a lesson,
wins a victory
with that
newfound
knowledge, and then returns home
transformed, only to find that most
people can't understand what was learned. Now the second journey begins,
help people become
enlightened and help teach the
ignorant nonbelievers who refuse to listen and reason.
My goal in life is to
preserve valuable knowledge and
share valuable
knowledge. Knowledge is food for the mind. But the human mind in 2024 is
starving to death. Starvation has many negative effects on the body
because a person is
not getting
enough nourishment, which is similar to what happens to the mind when
it's
not
getting enough knowledge. When a person starves, the body eats itself
and your organs begin to fail. You will also suffer from emotional and
cognitive changes, such as depression, anxiety, irritability, increased
mood fluctuations, intense and negative emotional reactions, decreased
enthusiasm, reduced motivation, impaired concentration, problem solving
and comprehension, increased rigidity, obsessional thinking and reduced
alertness, you will also experience fatigue, dizziness, muscle cramps, bad
breath, dry skin, headaches, and body temperature drops. Like the
bad side effects from
certain pharmaceutical drugs. Lack of knowledge starves your mind, and
until you start feeding your mind knowledge, you wont even know that
you're starving. You will just blame your problems on something else or
blame your problems on other people, You will never realize the problem is
you. You are the one who is responsible for feeding yourself knowledge.
There is no intravenous for knowledge and no pill for knowledge. Libraries
are fragmented and the schools are dumbed down. But the internet has the
ability to find the page or the paragraph or the video that provides you
with the information you seek, but you have to learn how to use the
internet productively and effectively.
My work is like building your own house.
You have to spend money to buy the land or buy the space or server. Then you have to buy
building supplies or in this case, buy computers. Then you have to learn how to build your
home using education courses. This is when you can start to build your own home. And
during all that
time and work that you put in, you're not being paid. You are
essentially making an
investment. The payments that you receive from all the work that
you do building your house, comes from all the benefits that comes from
having a home. The work and time not only pays for itself, the return on investment will
exceed most of the other work that you will do in your life. And on top of
that, your work is something that you can share with others and pass on to
future generations.
This is your foundation.
There are only so many
things that you can plan for.
When I started the
BK101 Project I had no idea how many hours
a day that I would spend on collecting, organizing and
sharing knowledge and information. I had no idea how
many years I would spend doing
this.
I had no idea how much knowledge and information
I would find, or what this knowledge and information
would teach me about myself and the world around me. All I know now is
that this is what I need to do. This project is extremely important and
beneficial, so I see this as my destiny. The more work that I do on BK101,
the more work I create. So I will be working on this until my last
breath...
more.
Majority of my focus and effort is on my work, and my work is
focused on knowledge and information, and researching how knowledge and
information can be used to improve education and improve media
applications. Knowledge and information has been improving and advancing
society for thousands of years. So the benefits of Knowledge and
information has been well documented, so Knowledge and information is
nothing new. But now, the world has so much more valuable Knowledge and
information than any other time before in history. We can no longer ignore
the potential and the power that Knowledge and information gives humanity.
Humans are at a crossroads. We can no longer afford to make any more wrong
turns. Our next decision may be our last.
When I started to collect all this knowledge, I had to
learn in fragments
because knowledge is not laid out in perfect order, or does knowledge have
a straight path to follow. I had to learn how to
put all those
fragments together. And in doing so, I'm now
seeing the bigger picture,
as well as, I'm understanding the parts that make up the bigger picture a
lot better. I can see the unseen. I can see the invisible layers that lie
underneath this complex system of life. But I can't see it all or can I
see everything. I see just enough to know that
I'm still blind in
many ways.
"
Great
knowledge often comes from the humblest of origins."
The Man Who Knew Infinity (wiki).
Humble Beginning is when you start out small or unassuming and
insignificant, and then grow over time. A humble beginning could also mean
that a family did not have a high social status or have a lot of money, so
they experienced struggles and hardships early in life, but they overcame
these obstacles and became grateful and appreciative for what little they
had.
The more I educate myself, the happier I become. The
more I educate myself, the more aware I become, and the more understanding
I am of myself and the world around me. I'm still vulnerable and I still
make mistakes, but now I'm more knowable, so I handle myself a lot better
than I use to, and I handle difficult situations better than I use to. The
only down side to educating myself is that I see more ignorance in myself
and in others. The good news is that I can fix and correct my own
ignorance, but the bad news is that fixing and correcting the ignorance in
others is a lot more difficult. And when you see the ignorance of others
destroying the lives of millions of people and destroying the planet, the
reality of this dilemma becomes extremely disturbing and stressful. So I
have to take on this burden because I see this problem. This is my
responsibility as a human being to do something. This is why every human
is alive today, because our ancestors stood up and did what was right and
did what was needed. So I'm reciprocating.
I have been educating
myself for the last 16 years since 2008, and it has been incredible to say
the least. But the down side is, no one I know has educated themselves in
the same way or in the same amount or with the same quality of knowledge
and information that I have. So I have to keep in mind that people don't
have the same knowledge and information that I do, thus, other people
can't understand things the same way that I do, or see things the same way
I do. People have no idea how much knowledge and information they're
missing, and how little they know. I was the same in 2008, I had no idea
how much I didn't know. Now in 2024, I know a lot more than ever before,
which gives ne a better understanding of myself and the world around me.
So, there is a lot a human needs to know. Now, I have to explain why
knowledge and information is important. Some people will be skeptic and
make up excuses why they don't want to learn something. They will assume
that the information is not important, and they make these assumptions
without ever understanding why they think something isn't valuable, and,
without proving their reasoning is accurate or even valid. If you can't
prove you're right or prove someone else is wrong, then what are you
doing? Nothing, except being an idiot.
As I continually learn about myself and the world
around me, I reduce the ignorance that I have acquired throughout my life.
And as I do this, I also increase the amount of ignorance that I was not
aware of. The more you know, the more you realize how much you still don't
know. I'm gaining more knowledge, but I'm also becoming more aware of my
lack of knowledge. This keeps me learning, like a self feeding system. The
more I learn, the more I want to learn more. This is normal human
behavior. The brain wants to know. But why do so many young people lose
this desire to keep learning?
Why do people naively
believe that they know enough? It's better to know what you don't know
then it is to think that you know enough. It's true that you will never
know everything. But this is not bad or discouraging. It's just a little
reminder, so that when you think you know enough, you're reminded that you
are not even close. knowing everything is something that you will never
experience, which is a good thing. I can't even imagine what the means to
know everything. To know that you will die, to know that you are
vulnerable, to know that the planet is vulnerable.
So what is the point? Will
knowing everything answer every question, or, just make us aware of the
questions we haven't learned to ask. I believe that we will get to a
certain level and then decide how many human qualities we want to
preserve. There's a lot of fun in being stupid occasionally. So the
million dollar question is, can we still have fun and be intelligent at
the same time? Can we preserve our human qualities that we love, and at
the same time, live in
nirvana? This is extremely motivating. Our ancestors explored the
earth to discover a better life. And now, humans are
exploring the human mind to fully
understand
what a better
life is and
what a better life is
supposed to be. This gives everyone a reason for living.
Simplifying the Complex - Making things easy to Understand
"If you can't
explain it simply, you don't
understand it
well enough." -
Albert Einstein
Layman's Terms is
to describe a complex or
technical statement using words and terms that
someone not specialized in a specific field can
understand. To put
something in Layman's Terms is to
phrased something simply
in
plain language, without
jargon or fancy words. A laymen is someone who is not trained to a high or
professional
standard in a particular subject, and thus may not
understand that subject matter.
The goal is to eliminate
vagueness and
ambiguity
and at the same time not limit knowledge to a specific set
of values so that
knowledge can vary infinitely within a
continuum.
Simplify is making something easy to understand
without reducing its meaning
or lowering its importance. To be
basic and
brief but
not too
general. Turning
complexity into
simplicity
so that understanding can
emerge and
flourish.
Simplification is the process of making
something simpler or easier to do or to understand.
Simple Living.
Simpler is something having few parts and
is not too complex, complicated or involved. Without additions or
modifications.
Explain something as if you were
explaining something to a child. If a child can understand,
so should the adult.
What was true to you as a child, should still ring true today as an adult.
But if you never learned the truth as a child, then knowing the truth as
an adult will be difficult, especially if the person has
stopped learning or
stopped educating themselves.
Real Life Examples -
Analogies -
Seeing the Whole Picture
-
Mind Maps -
Facilitate The Feynman Technique - If you can
teach a concept to a child, then you most likely understand it. By
attempting to
explain a concept in simple terms, often makes you more
understanding of that concept. The Feynman Technique is this: Pretend that
you are
explaining something to a child or teaching a concept to a student
in the sixth grade. Identify gaps in your explanation. Identify your
knowledge gaps. Go back to the source material to better understand it.
Identify the subject. Write down
everything you know about the topic,
without
generalizing and
without being too vague. (Organize + Simplify + Tell a Story).
Oversimplify is to simplify something
so much that it's difficult to
understand because it
doesn't have the necessary details or the
context that is needed to make
it clear and less
vague.
Oversimplifying something can distort its
meaning to such a degree that
it can make something no longer
accurate or
true.
Reframe is to
express a concept or a
plan differently
using different words or different
examples that would
help explain something in a different way that may help someone understand
something a little better.
Rephrase
is rewriting the same text using different words
without losing the meaning of
the text itself.
Paraphrasing is to say something using different words, sometimes in a
shorter and simpler form to make the meaning clearer. Paraphrasing can
give speakers a chance to clarify or
confirm something in
order to
avoid
misunderstandings and avoid
misinterpretations.
Writing something in your own words, instead of using direct quotes, can
help increase understanding.
Validation.
Close Paraphrasing is the superficial
modification of material from another source.
Editors should generally
summarize source material in their own words, adding inline citations as
required by the sourcing policy.
Text
Simplification is an operation used in natural language processing to
change, enhance, classify, or otherwise process an existing body of
human-readable text so its
grammar and
structure is greatly simplified while the underlying meaning and
information remain the same.
Automated Paraphrasing in computational linguistics is the natural
language processing task of detecting and
generating
paraphrases. Applications of paraphrasing are varied including
information retrieval, question answering, text
summarization, and
plagiarism detection.
Paraphrasing is also useful in the evaluation of
machine translation, as
well as semantic parsing and generation of new samples to expand existing
corpora or collection of writings.
Prose
is written or spoken language in its ordinary form. A matter of fact,
commonplace, or dull expression.
You need to explain something in more than one way.
When there's other ways to explain something, then there are other ways to
understand something, especially something that is
relevant to you. Sometimes there is no easy way to say something,
especially something complex. Of course there's a good way or a better way
of saying something. And there's also a bad way or the wrong way to say
something. Most things can be explained, but there is no guarantee that
the message will be understood correctly or understood in the same way by
everyone. Sometimes you have to talk to each individual on their level and
at the right time. Some messages can be mass produced, but there is no
guarantee that the message will understood by the masses in the same way.
You'll have pockets of conformity here and there, but conformity does not
confirm
understanding
or
consensus. If you want
to speak to everyone, you have to speak to everyone separately. The only
logical way to have comprehension be the same for everyone, is to have
everyone use the same rules, the same procedures and the same reasoning
that will help produce similar logical answers consistently, and also have
a consensus. And the reasoning must always allow for new ideas and new
perspectives. If someone does not agree, we must know why they don't
agree. We can not silence or censor people, we can only filter peoples
feedback in the best way that we know how. If a mistake is made, it will
not be because we didn't listen someone, it will be because we did not
learn something. And if we learn from our mistakes, then we can keep
advancing and keep moving forward.
Risk.
Explaining something simply does not make
it simple to understand or simple to do. You are basically just giving someone an
introduction to something so they can have
a
starting point, then from there, it
becomes a learning journey.
Clarity is something
free from obscurity and
easy to understand. The quality of being
coherent and
intelligible. The quality of
transparency or
purity. The
comprehensibility of clear
expression.
Clear is something easy to
perceive, understand, or
interpret.
Something readily apparent to the mind. Something
free from confusion or
doubt. Clear is something
transparent and
unclouded.
Affording free passage or view or allowing light to pass through. Clear is
to remove an obstruction or
remove unwanted item
or items from something so as to be out of the way of or away from.
Plain is something that can be
clearly revealed to the mind or
to the senses, or judgment. Something unmistakably and visibly clear in an
evident manner. Simple
and not mixed with extraneous elements. Not elaborate or elaborated.
Without modification and without any attempt to soften or disguise.
Elementary is something easy and not
involved or complicated. Being the essential or basic part.
Demystify
is to make something less mysterious, something that is not apparent and
obscure in nature and beyond ordinary understanding.
Mystify is to make something confusing or
perplexing. To cause someone to be unable to think clearly.
Straightforward is
something that is uncomplicated
and easy to do or understand. Free from ambiguity. Without
evasion or compromise. Without concealment or deception; Honest.
Concise is
giving a lot of information
clearly and
in a few words. Brief but comprehensive.
Concision is the cutting out of unnecessary words while conveying an
idea. It aims to enhance communication by eliminating
redundancy
without omitting important information.
Elevator Pitch
is a short description of an idea, product, or company that explains the
concept in a way such that any listener can understand it in a short
period of time. This description typically explains who the thing is for,
what it does, why it is needed, and how it will get done. When, explaining
an individual person, the description generally explains one's skills and
goals, and why they would be a productive and beneficial person to have on
a team or within a company or project. An elevator pitch does not have to
include all of these components, but it usually does at least explain what
the idea, product, company, or person is and their value.
Mission Statement -
Business Plan -
Sales Pitch.
Encapsulate is to put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume.
Enclose in a capsule or other small container.
In a Nutshell is to explain something
briefly and clearly and
sum it up in just a few words. To give a
summary of a story.
Fundamental are the
basic concepts, basic facts or
basic principles that serve as
an essential component to understanding a subject at the lowest level, or
a factor that could be considered important to the understanding of
something.
Foundation.
To
define but not Limit -
Document Writing -
Fluency -
Comprehension -
Occam's Razor -
Science Communication -
Presentation
Intelligible is something capable of being
apprehended or understood. Well
articulated or enunciated, and
loud enough to be heard distinctly.
Self-Explanatory is something that
explains itself or is
capable of being
understood without an
explanation. Something obvious and easy to
understand that does not need an explanation.
Obvious is something easily
perceived by the senses or grasped and
understood by the mind.
No Brainer is something that requires
or involves little or no mental effort.
White Paper is an authoritative
report or
guide that informs
readers concisely or
in a
few words about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's
philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue,
solve a problem, or make a decision.
To approach an idea from another
angle. If you look at something from a different angle, or you look at
it from a
different point of
view, and consider something from a
perspective
other than your own,
you
may see the whole picture. It's like using a
3D simulation, except using
words.
Reductionist is a person
who analyzes and describes a complex phenomenon in terms of its
simple or
fundamental constituents. But does not
generalize or make
vague statements.
Reductionism.
Methodological Reductionism is the scientific
attempt to provide explanation in terms of ever smaller entities.
Theory
Reductionism is the suggestion that a newer theory does not replace or
absorb the old, but reduces it to more basic terms. Theory reduction
itself is divisible into three:
translation, derivation and
explanation.
Reductionism can be applied to objects, phenomena, explanations, theories,
and meanings.
Computational Irreducibility is the inability to shortcut a program or
a system, or otherwise describe its behavior in a simple way. The
empirical fact is that the world of simple programs contains a great
diversity of behavior, but, because of undecidability, it is impossible to
predict what they will do before essentially running them. The idea
demonstrates that there are occurrences where theory's predictions are
effectively not possible. Computational irreducibility explains observed
limitations of existing mainstream science. In cases of computational
irreducibility, only observation and experiment can be used. Computational
irreducibility may also provide a scientifically-based resolution for free
will.
Ontological Reductionism is a belief that the whole of reality consists of
a
minimal number of parts.
Independent Research - Unbiased Analysis
Independent Studies are extremely important.
Autodidacticism or self-education is
the act of
self-directed learning about a subject or subjects
in which someone has had little or no formal education. Many
notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.
Like Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison,
The Wright Brothers, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Darwin,
Michael Faraday, Benjamin Franklin and Jimi Hendrix, as
well as many others. Independent studies provide a way for well-motivated
people to pursue a topic of interest that does not
necessarily fit into a traditional hobby, activity or
academic curriculum. Independent studies also provide
students and people with opportunities to explore their
interests deeper and make important decisions about how
and where they will direct their talents in the future.
Research includes the formulation of questions and
answers, with the goal to
develop and present a product
or
service. The research may also be used to advance
further research into a particular subject that will be
performed by other people. So don't ever under estimate the value of
research. Just because it seems that nothing will come
from your particular research, does not mean that it
will not have some value in the future. As proven
throughout history with many
scientific discoveries and research.
I work
outside academia, but I
do listen to the people
working inside academia. I would not see it as
inside information, its more like inside information looking out and
outside information looking in, and I'm in the middle where the middle
information is looking everywhere in
all directions.
You could easily teach yourself from this information
and knowledge, but it will be even easier to learn from
this website when all the data is designed into
logically ordered lessons so that you can learn the
right things at the right time.
Note:
When the
lessons are being created, some of the
comments and personal notes
within the research will not be included using the exact
same words or the exact same language.
The goal of education is to teach, and not just to preach.
I'm fully aware that I'm working on something that 99%
of the people on this planet can't understand, which is not bad, because that means that
over 70 million people on this planet should know enough to understand this
project. Though knowledge and
information has been here since our beginning, knowledge
is mostly
abstract, and most people
don't fully understand what knowledge and information
really means. People understand the benefits of a good
education, but people have no idea
what a good education
is supposed to be. So no matter where I start this
conversation, I know I must start off with questions
that can reveal how much knowledge a person has, then I
could use that information to communicate with that
person. You have to know the
language a person speaks. You can either learn their language, or, you can
teach them your language. But I know that it will be a
lot easier to
learn your language first before I can
even begin to teach you
the language of knowledge and
information.
Learning is like climbing a mountain. You
can't see the top of the
mountain, all you know is that the higher you climb, the more
you can see, and the
more you see, the more you will know, and the more you know, the more you
will see. The more you learn and the higher you climb, and the more your view
becomes breathtaking and awe-inspiring, way beyond an
epiphany, or
enlightenment, or a
great awakening. You have to experience it
yourself. It's like when you climb a mountain and you try to
describe what you saw and experienced. The only way to truly see what a
person saw, is
for you to climb that mountain. And the
mountain is a
metaphor for all the
knowledge and information that you can acquire, which a majority of is
organized on BK101. The majority of what you need to know is here, the rest we still
need to learn. So
continually
learning can get you high the mountain and open your eyes,
but what you see depends on how much you learned on the way up. And those
differences in what each of us learns and sees, is where our
combined learning journey
begins to flourish. But remember, there will be times that we
need to go back down the mountain and see where on the trail that
particular information was skewed or misinterpreted. Then we climb the
mountain again, except this time, our ascension is a lot faster and a lot
easier, which is the power of knowledge and learning at its finest.
Learning everything on BK101 is just a beginning of a
transformation.
And it's not something that will happen over night, it may take a few
years, but it will happen.
Steps.
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." —
Martin Luther King Jr.
It's like I'm doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing. My
life could have gone in so many different directions. It's just amazing
how things happen and how things turn out. I know that where I am now is
where I should be. but it's just unbelievable. If you find yourself in a
place you least expected, it might have been fate all along. Will power
and determination still needs luck. Life has risks. And you have to except
the risks that life has, and you also have to except all the
responsibilities that go along with navigating the hazards of life. It's
like we are freaks of nature, but were are not freaks, but life does seem
freaky. It's definitely an incredible journey. Someone should write a book
about it.
BK101 Responsibilities - Basic Outline
Phase One: Collect valuable knowledge and information and organize it.
(2008-2024) -
Timeline.
Phase Two: Edit and update organized knowledge and
information, while still working in phase one. (2015-2024)
Phase Three:
Start
linking knowledge and information, while still working in phase one
and two. (2015-2024)
Phase Four: Start assembling knowledge and information
and prepare knowledge and information for mobilization. (2024)
Phase
Five: Build the Education Software, Operating System and
Artificial
Intelligent Teaching Avatar.
Phase Six: Build the
Hardware for the
HOPE PC.
Phase Seven: Distribution and Field Testing.
Phase Eight:
Setup Maintenance and
Support.
Phase Nine: Continue Research and Development.
1: Continue collecting valuable
knowledge and information and organizing everything into
a
education database.
2: Build computerized
lessons that will
teach people how
to
read
and
write.
3: Build
computerized lessons that will teach people how
to comprehend what they read.
The computerized lessons will teach people how to read
using the most valuable words in their chosen language,
words that would give a person a better understanding of
themselves and the world around them. Then make sure
that all people have access to the worlds most valuable
knowledge and information throughout their life, so that
they continue to increase their intelligence and skills
as long as they need to.
4: Expand computerized lessons to cover all important
subjects.
5: Convert all Wikipedia links in BK101 into PDF's.
Could easily put 100,000 of the best wiki pages on
a single jump drive.
6: Continue to work on creating
the most advanced laptop
computer that would become the ultimate education
learning tool.
7: Continue the research on how to make education to be
the highest quality, and to be the most effective and
efficient as possible.
8: Create the ultimate
Question and Answer website on
the Internet. The database for this project could also
be used to give robots an operating system that would
mimic Artificial Intelligence.
9: Live, Learn, Love and Progress.
The speed of this project will increase significantly as more
people get involved, but for now, I still have to live life in
balance, which luckily is part of the
research. I have my research, but I also have other
responsibilities, like maintaining my physical and
mental health, I have to sleep, eat, exercise and pay bills. I have
another life, one that is different, and sometimes normal.
"Remember,
I haven't thought of everything, or do I
know everything, and I am certainly not prepared for all the different
scenarios that life can throw at you from time to time. What I do know is
that this project is extremely important to me and to this world. So my
commitment to this project is for the rest of life."
How did I get Here
I got lucky. I was in the right place at
the right time
asking questions. Then from there it was just a matter of
working on the idea, and of course, getting the support and resources that
I needed to explore this idea and to chase this dream, which is pretty much the same for all
inventors. I taught
myself website development so that I could disseminate valuable
information using the internet. There's
only a handful of people on this planet who could have done what I have
done in the same way that I did it. I was incredibly effective and
efficient in
collecting the most valuable knowledge and
information that
was currently available. I knew the internet, I knew where to look for
information, I knew the right questions to ask, and I knew how to document
and record, and I knew how to organizing and categorize. I was made for this particular job. But it wasn't always
perfect,
I made a lot of mistakes, but I did not let my mistakes slow me
down or distract me. I kept going because I knew what I was doing
was right thing to do, and no
doubt, it was the most important thing in my life. I knew this was it,
this is what I would do for the rest of my life.
Sometimes you don't get to choose what kind of
life you want to live,
sometimes life chooses you. Life has a
interesting way to compel you to live a life that is completely different
from the life that you had originally imagined. And when you look back on
your life, you realize that many things seem to have
happened for a good
reason. I certainly didn't plan all the crazy things that happened to me
in my life, but it seems that someone did plan a lot of those things. Was
it some divine intervention, or was it just shear luck? We may never
know why we have lived a life like ours, and we may never know what
happens to us when we die, or if our memories are preserved in someway.
But there has to be a reason.
And maybe the reason why we are here is up to us to answer. It's our
responsibility to
give life reason. We
should not wait around for someone to show up and give us some grand
explanation of why life is the way it is. Give life reason.
Live, Learn, Love, and
Progress.
Though I try to plan as much as I can, a lot of things related to
the BK101 project have happened as if planned by someone or something
else. Most of the things that have happened since 2008, were not planned
by me. I did not plan to learn what I have learned so far.
You can not plan for how knowledge will change you.
You can not wonder what it would be like to be smart, you can only
experience it, and once you experience it, you can not even explain it.
It's like you are born again without the memory of ever being born before.
Epiphanies and exhilarating joy are common assurances. And as long as I
keep learning and continue to acquire more knowledge, I will continue to
experience mind expanding realizations that are a constant reminder that I
am on the right path, and that I am on the road to heaven, even knowing
that too many people are on the road to hell, and that too many people
don't even have a choice to choose a path. So I must stay on this path.
And not just because this is
my destiny, but it's my
duty and an honor to be of service. In a sense, this is my only choice.
My Priorities
I'm doing several things at once, researching
education improvements, organizing
knowledge and information, I'm
writing a lot, I'm reading a lot,
updating websites, learning,
thinking, living, sleeping, eating,
exercising, and, doing things for
other people.
So I have my
priorities, and I have my
responsibilities. But most people don't
know what my
priorities are, or do
they understand my priorities the
same way that I do. People see
certain details of my life
inaccurately. They only see what is
important to them. But they don't
understand what is important to me,
or what is important to the world
that we all live in. My First
priority is to create a complete
high quality education curriculum
along with a knowledge and
information resource that can be
easily distributed effectively and
efficiently, and also be affordable
to everyone. So everything else in
my life comes second, not to say
that those other priorities in my
life are not important, because they
are, it's just that the main
priority is so much more important.
At times some of the planning and
the
managing of this goal seems
illogical and ineffective, but at
other times, the planning looks more
like pure genius, as if the
struggles of my life are in perfect
balance that allows me to continue
my research without any
distractions, or without any corrupt
influences from the ignorance that I
am trying to overcome. Most people
know that
ignorance
is poisoning the minds of almost every person on the planet. Our ignorance
is killing life on earth, and killing our planets ability to sustain life.
Being able to see is one thing, fully understanding what you see is
another. We have learned from history that a lot ideas start out messy.
New ideas seldom look perfect in the beginning, even when they are just
old ideas being reintroduced. But you still have to define which parts
look questionable to you. What parts do you think are right? What parts do
you think are wrong? If something doesn't look right, then you should
bring it to the attention of others, and then explain why you think
something is right or wrong. You just can't give yourself excuses not to
learn without the reasons why, because if you do, the only thing that you
prove is that you are confused. And the only thing that relieves confusion
is answers, answers to the questions that you need to ask. So, are you asking the right questions?
Trust No One (words
have no
truth without knowledge)
I'm Just Getting Started
-
Instructions from the Curator
Even though
I have collected an enormous
amount of knowledge and information so far, as of 2024, I'm still finding a lot
more valuable knowledge and
information. The
Internet is like an endless gold
mine of knowledge and information.
The more you dig, the more knowledge
you find, and the wealthier you
become. Sometimes it's hard to stop
learning.
But the Internet has Flaws.
I
don't just want to
give you a computer, I want to give you the ability to
make your own computer and know how it works, and know how to repair it
yourself.
Our most powerful ability is
our ability to learn, yet we
take learning for granted, and we pay little attention to how important learning is.
What I'm doing is not
unusual, it's just the particular way that I'm doing it that's unusual.
I'm the author, the co-author and the
curator.
Passing the Baton and
Paying it Forward.
I inherited a world full of problems. But luckily I have been learning
the skills and acquiring knowledge that is needed to solve these problems.
What I need is to have clear lines of authority and have the resources
available that are needed to do my job effectively. I also need to speak
the truth and be on the level with the public so people are fully aware of
our current state of affairs as they really are. I'm continue to do the
work that is necessary.
I am a product of
society. I was made by society.
I can't say that I did
something all by myself. I did something because
thousands of intelligent
people helped me to become the person I am.
I learned from the
collective. And I
thank God that
I was not
restricted or
limited or
manipulated
too much. But I was in the beginning.
You can say that I did it my way,
but not really. I just did it. And
why make the research available
before it's complete? Because if I
die, at least I know the research
will live on and continue. And why
don't I have more people involved?
Finding others who understand, or
care about what you're doing, is
extremely difficult, especially when
you haven't completed all the
research just yet, especially the words that would
help to
explain the goal more clearly. But
when that happens, more people will
be able to understand, and more
people will want to be involved. The
speed I'm going now is as fast as I
can go, because
I still have a lot
to learn, and I still have a lot of
my own ignorance to repair. But
people will learn a lot faster then
me, and also learn more effectively
then me because they will start with
a much better education than anyone
has had before, thus, they will not
have to waste so much time repairing
their own ignorance, or have to suffer from it.
People will
start their lives knowing, instead of not knowing.
"Remember why you started, remember why you're
here, keep learning, don't second guess yourself, just stay aware and
keep searching for more understanding."
"I'm doing nothing unusual.
Humans have been asking questions since the beginning. It's just that now
with the
internet and our
collective intelligence, we can finally now get some answers and learn
more then ever before.
"I try to do positive things everyday so that my future self will will be
incredibly thankful for all the things that I've done, instead of
making people suffer from all the bad choices that I made."
I am the most unlikely
person to be doing what I am doing. But if you study human history,
our history is filled with
unlikely people doing
the most incredible things that seemed impossible.
Unlikely is something that is not likely to
be true or to occur or to have occurred. Something that has little chance
of being the case or coming about. Something having a probability too low to inspire belief.
My Legacy - My Destiny
Everyone has to do something, and
not everyone can do the
same thing. Life is many people doing many different things together, so
everyone plays a part. So I had to do something, and
this is my something,
my
destiny, my
legacy, my
life's
mission, my
purpose, my
inspiration.
People
devoting their life to
a cause is nothing new.
Many people throughout history have given their lives for a
cause, and many more will continue to give their lives in the future,
it's
human nature.
Everyone has to do something. And every person needs to
focus and devote most
of their time to a particular project or type of work. That is why people
working
together is so extremely important. When someone is focused on a
particular type of work, they must rely on other people who are also
focusing on their particular type of work. Because
no one can do it all by themselves,
but
when we work
together, we can do it all. Even though
we can't do everything,
you can at least
be good and
be good at whatever you do.
You have to
start somewhere.
Everyone has a role to play, everyone has an important job to do, and
everyone must work together, because everyone can't do the same type of
work. Every person must play their part, and at the same time, be part of
the whole.
I found my calling. I do what I love and
I love what I do.
I'm
making
time and
continually
searching and
continually learning.
Legacy is a gift of personal property
by will,
something that is handed down, endowed or conveyed from one
person to another, sometimes from an ancestor. It is something descendible
one comes into possession of that is transmitted, inherited or received
from a predecessor from one period of time to another period of time.
Everyone is a
beneficiary of my
digital assets. Everyone will
inherit a tremendous wealth
of knowledge.
Digital Inheritance.
Historical is having once lived,
existed or taken place in the real world. Relating to the study of
history and what is
important in history or
famous in the past. The study
of a phenomenon such as
language as
it changes through time.
True Will a person's
grand destiny in life or as a
moment-to-moment path of action that operates in perfect harmony with
nature. True Will does not spring from conscious intent, but from the
interplay between the deepest self and the entire universe. Thelemites in
touch with their True Will are said to have eliminated or bypassed their
false desires, conflicts, and habits, and accessed their connection with
the divine. Theoretically, at this point, the Thelemite acts in alignment
with nature, just as a stream flows downhill, with neither resistance nor
"lust of result".
Something's
Happen for a Reason -
Misssion
.
Great Work is the spiritual endeavor aimed at realizing one's True
Will and achieving a profound mystical union with the All.
Great
Work represents the culmination of
the spiritual path, the attainment of enlightenment, or the rescue of the
human soul from the unconscious forces which bind it.
Magnum Opus.
I'm not only collecting knowledge and
organizing knowledge, I'm also documenting some historical observations,
because this time period will go down in history as one of the most
significant moments in human civilization, and most people living it
today, are not even aware of how significant they really are.
Emergence.
When something important needs to be done,
sometimes you have to do it yourself, mostly because hoping that
things will improve on there own or hoping that someone else will do it,
is sometimes not an option. You have to act, you have to do it, you have
to start it, because no one else will.
Activism.
“
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
-
Benjamin Franklin
- (
saving time)
Sometimes the most perfect person for the job is not the most perfect person,
but for that particular job, they are perfect. Sometimes we
perceive imperfections as hindrances, when in fact they are a perfect
ability under some unique circumstances.
"Doing ordinary things in
extraordinary ways."
"When something is important enough,
you do it, even if the odds
are against you" -
Elon Musk
(wiki)
The mark that great people leave on history are remembered for
their actions and achievements. The greatest legacy anyone can leave
behind is to positively impact the lives of others and add value to other
people's lives.
Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our
lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of
time
Knowledge Base Definitions
Knowledge Base is a
technology used to
store complex
structured
and unstructured
information
that is used by
people or
by a computer system,
including
artificial
intelligence.
Body of Knowledge is the
complete set of
structured knowledge
that is used by
members of a discipline to
guide their practice
or work. A set of
concepts, terms and
activities that make up a
professional domain.
A type of
knowledge representation by any
knowledge organization, or as defined by
a relevant
learned society or professional
association. The
prescribed aggregation of knowledge in a
particular area an individual is expected to have mastered to be
considered or certified as a practitioner. The
systematic collection
of activities and outcomes in terms of their
values, constructs, models,
principles and instantiations, which (a) arises from
continuous discovery
and
validation work by members of the profession and (b) enables
self-reflective growth and reproduction of the profession. A set of
accepted and agreed upon standards and nomenclatures pertaining to a field
or profession.
A set of knowledge within a
profession or subject area
which is generally
agreed as both essential and generally known. A body of
knowledge is the accepted ontology for a specific domain. A BOK is more
than simply a collection of terms; a professional reading list; a
library; a website or a
collection of websites; a description of
professional functions; or even a collection of information.
Seeing the Whole
Picture -
Multiple Degrees -
Corpus -
Curriculum -
Collective Knowledge -
Library Science
-
Knowledge Management -
Knowledge Preservation
Ontology in
computing is a rigorous and
exhaustive
organization of some
knowledge domain
that is usually
hierarchical and contains all the
relevant entities and their
relations.
Metaphysics.
Athenaeum is a literary or
scientific association for the
promotion of learning. An
association for the
advancement of learning,
particularly in
science or
literature. A place where reading materials are
available. Athenaeum is used in the names of
libraries or
institutions for literary or scientific study, and used in the titles of
periodicals concerned with literature, science, and
art.
Domain
is the
content of a particular
field of knowledge. People in general; especially a distinctive
group of
people with some shared interest. A particular
environment or walk of
life. Territory over which rule or control is exercised. Domain in
mathematics is the set of values of the independent variable for which a
function is defined.
Biology Domain.
Living Document is a document that is continually edited and
evolves
through
successive updates. The document
expands as needed over time to
serve multiple purposes. Living documents can be changed through
revisions
that may or may not reference previous iterative changes.
Figurative System of Human Knowledge was a tree developed to represent
the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the
Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot.
Encyclopedia
is a reference work often in several volumes containing articles on
various topics often arranged in
alphabetical
order dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some
particular specialty.
Encyclopaedic or encyclopedic is something
that is broad in scope or content.
Dictionaries.
Encyclopedism is an outlook that aims to include a
wide range of knowledge in a
single work. The term covers both encyclopedias themselves and related
genres in which comprehensiveness is a notable feature. The encyclopedia
is one of the few generalizing influences in a world of
overspecialization. It serves to recall that knowledge has unity. The word
"encyclopedia" is a Latinization of the Greek enkýklios paideía, which
means
all-around education. The
Greek phrase refers to the education that a well-round student should
receive.
Encyclopedias are considered a scholarly source because
the content is almost always written by scholars on the subject. However,
the entries are not written for other scholars but for a general audience.
Entries are reviewed by an editorial board, but
they are not peer reviewed.
Britannica Library
says they are a reliable source with objective, fact-check, and unbiased
content that is written by experts and vetted through rigorous editorial
process, but without an independent third party verifying these claims,
it's just talk. Britannica School - Britannica Learn.
Court Case Decisions -
Instruction Manual -
Human Instruction Manual -
A
Never Ending Story
Reference Book
is a
book to which one can refer for
information. The information is
intended to be found quickly when needed. Reference works are usually
referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read
beginning to end. The
writing style used in these works is informative;
the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts.
Reference is a short note recognizing a
source of information or of
a
quoted passage. A book to
which you can refer for authoritative
facts. The most
direct or
specific meaning of
a word or expression; the class of objects that an
expression refers to. A remark
that calls
attention to something or
someone.
An indicator that orients
you generally. A reference can also mean a formal
recommendation
by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the
person's
qualifications
and dependability.
Refer -
Precedent -
StandardReference Point
or
frame of
reference is a system of geometric axes in relation to which
measurements of size, position, or motion can be made. Reference point as
a geometrical point is used to define the location of another point.
Reference point is a point within a
reference range or
reference interval, which is a range of values found in healthy persons.
Reference point is a measurement taken during a
standard state or reference
state, used in chemistry to calculate properties under different
conditions.
Cross Reference is a
reference to another text or part of a text, typically given in order
to elaborate on a point. A reference at one place in a work to information
at another place in the same work. An instance within a document which
refers to related information
elsewhere in the same document. In both printed and online
dictionaries cross-references are important because they form a network
structure of relations existing between different parts of data,
dictionary-internal as well as dictionary external.
Reference Work is a work such as a book or periodical or its
electronic equivalent to which one can refer for
information. The
information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Reference works
are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than
read beginning to end. The writing style used in these works is
informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize
facts. Many reference works are compiled by a team of contributors whose
work is coordinated by one or more editors rather than by an individual
author. Indices are commonly provided in many types of reference work.
Updated editions are usually published as needed, in some cases annually
(e.g. Whitaker's Almanack, Who's Who). Reference works include
dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, bibliographies,
biographical sources, catalogs such as library catalogs and art catalogs,
concordances, directories such as business directories and telephone
directories, discographies, filmographies, glossaries, handbooks, indices
such as bibliographic indices and citation indices, manuals, research
guides, thesauruses, and yearbooks. Many reference works are available in
electronic form and can be obtained as reference software, CD-ROMs, DVDs,
or online through the Internet. A reference work is useful to its users if
they attribute some degree of trust.
Commonplace Books are a way to
compile knowledge, usually
by writing information into
books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly
during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are
similar to
scrapbooks filled
with items of many kinds: sententiae (often with the compiler's
responses), notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, quotes, letters,
poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and
recipes. Entries are most often organized under subject headings and
differ functionally from journals or diaries, which are chronological and
introspective." Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and
scholars as an aid for
remembering useful concepts or facts; sometimes they were required of
young women as evidence of their mastery of social roles and as
demonstrations of the correctness of their upbringing. They became
significant in Early Modern Europe.
Science Literature.
Index in
publishing is a list of words or phrases
or
headings and
associated pointers or
locators to where useful material relating to that
heading can be found in a document or
collection of
documents.
Web Indexing -
Web of Knowledge -
Time Saver
-
Summary -
Representation
Resource is a source of
aid or
support or
reserve supply that may be drawn upon when needed. The
ability to deal
resourcefully with unusual problems. Provide with or obtain resources. An
available source of wealth.
Resourcefulness is the quality of
being able
to cope with a
difficult situation.
Source is the place
where something begins, where it springs into
being. A
document or organization from which information is obtained.
Anything that provides inspiration for later work. A facility where
something is available. A publication or a passage from a publication that
is referred to.
A person who supplies information. Someone who
originates or causes or initiates something. Source in technology is a
process by which energy or a substance enters a system.
Guide is to
accompany somebody somewhere to show them the way or determine the
direction of traveling. Someone who shows the way by
leading or advising.
Something that offers basic information or
instruction. A model,
standard or outline to follow or adapt. Someone who can find paths through
unexplored territory. A structure or marking that serves to direct the
motion or positioning of something.
Teaching -
Testing.
Knowledge-Based System consists of a knowledge-base that
represents
facts about the world and an inference engine that can reason about those
facts and use rules and other forms of logic to deduce new facts or
highlight inconsistencies. A technology used to store
complex structured
and
unstructured information used by any person or computer system.
Inference
Engine is a component of the system that applies logical rules to the
knowledge base to deduce new information. It is a tool from
Artificial Intelligence. The first inference engines were components
of
expert systems. The typical expert system consisted of a knowledge base
and an inference engine. The knowledge base stored facts about the world.
The inference engine applied logical rules to the knowledge base and
deduced new knowledge. This process would iterate as each new fact in the
knowledge base could trigger additional rules in the inference engine.
Inference engines work primarily in one of two modes either special rule
or facts: forward chaining and backward chaining. Forward chaining starts
with the known facts and asserts new facts. Backward chaining starts with
goals, and works backward to determine what facts must be asserted so that
the goals can be achieved.
Expert System is
a computer
system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human
expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by
reasoning
about knowledge, represented primarily as if–then rules rather than
through conventional procedural code.
Corpus knowledge is a
collection or
body of knowledge or evidence, especially a collection of recorded
utterances used as a basis for the descriptive analysis of a language.
Corpus is a
collection of
written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a
body of writing on a particular subject.
Text Corpus is a
language resource consisting of a
large and structured set of
texts
(nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). In corpus
linguistics, they are used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis
testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a
specific language territory. A corpus may contain texts in a single
language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages
(multilingual corpus). In order to make the corpora more useful for doing
linguistic research, they are often subjected to a process known as
annotation. An example of annotating a corpus is
part-of-speech tagging,
or POS-tagging, in which information about each word's part of speech
(verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags.
Another example is indicating the lemma (base) form of each word. When the
language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who
use it, interlinear glossing is used to make the annotation bilingual.
Corpus
Linguistics is the
study
of language as a language is expressed in its text corpus (plural
corpora), its body of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that
reliable language analysis is more feasible with corpora collected in the
field in its natural context ("realia"), and with minimal experimental
interference.
Information
Commons is an
information system, such as a physical library or
online
community, that exists to produce, conserve, and preserve information for
current and future generations.
Public Domain is
a place of sanctuary for individual creative expression, a sanctuary
conferring affirmative protection against the forces of private
appropriation that threatened such expression.
Creative Commons
is available for others to build upon legally and to
share.
Open Education practices and programmatic initiatives that broaden
access to the learning and training traditionally offered through formal
education systems.
Open
Governance is
collective
wisdom to benefit the decision-making process and improve democracy.
Enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of
policy.
BK101 Name (Base
Knowledge) -
About BK101 -
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Welcome to Basic Knowledge 101:
A Collective Intelligent Consensus of Knowledge for the
21st Century.
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- 5 Core Subjects
Knowledge Base System Requirements: Your
knowledge base system should help educate people and also help people to
solve problems. When you write a how-to guide you should use chronological
order to explain each step of the process. Start with basic information
and build up to more complicated instructions towards the end. For every
new action, give clear instructions. Don’t make assumptions. Your users
don’t know the product as well as you do. What seems like an obvious
intermediate step for you may be unknown to a beginner. Include
screenshots to explain menus, categories, and buttons that users should
click to get to the right result.
Give clear
instructions. knowledge base should include benefit-focused content
only. A knowledge base should be highly informative and provide relevant
information for a specific goal. Keep this question in mind when writing:
“How will my content positively affect my audience?” A knowledge base
should give relevant information only. Cut all the fluff. Titles and
headlines must speak for themselves. Deliver the information in the right
order for your readers to understand it. A Knowledge Base should be
well-organized, and it should make sense as a whole. It should be
intuitive and easy to navigate. Readers should be able to find the
articles they need fast. Paragraphs are short (maximum of four sentences).
There are plenty of line breaks and white spaces. Tables and bulleted
lists make information easier to read and digest.
There are links to other pages and articles for users to get more
information on a related topic. Include video tutorials that show users
how to install, setup, and use the software. Under the video, include a
script where users who don’t have the time to watch can find the
information they need.
A knowledge base should be
optimized for all devices. Two thirds of global traffic come from
mobile devices. So, look for knowledge base solutions that allow you to
provide excellent customer support on smartphones, tablets, and desktop.
Make your Search bar visible. It should catch your visitors’ attention
from the first moment they land on your page. (Don’t hide it in the
corner!). Add quick links to hot topics and frequently asked questions to
improve navigation. Also include links to related articles, for people who
need to learn more about a specific topic. Use colours to differentiate
the main categories and topics. Consider calming and relaxing colours,
like blue, green, or yellow. Excessively bright colours aren’t going to
calm down an already stressed user! Introduce a
table of contents for long articles. This way, users can jump to
the section they’re interested in and save time. Use white space to make
the content easier to follow. Insert visuals to break up the long
paragraphs – screenshots, videos, graphics, or any other tool that can
help readers better understand what they’ve read. Images add interest and
clarity and help the eye and the brain to take a rest from the text.
Highlight the section where users can get more help. It’s essential for
users to see that they can contact you when self-service alone fails to
give them accurate answers. Divide your content into categories and
organize articles by topics, themes, and sub-themes. Each piece should
treat one question (or problem) only. Make navigation easy by linking
related articles to guide your readers on a logical path. Design a
user-friendly menu that allows readers to
know where they are and gives them an easy way to get to another category.
Implement a killer search engine to help readers find what they need. Use
visual design and colours to help people differentiate the content. Break
the information into small chunks to allow your readers to assimilate what
they read. Guide users with solid UX techniques to lower the time they
spend looking for inform. Just like the foundations of your office
building, your knowledge base is fundamental to serving your customers.
Whether you’re building an internal knowledge base or a self-service
customer support centre, you must provide value to your readers. Your
knowledge base is an essential tool since it allows you to help more
customers at the same time, without increasing costs or lowering quality.
Every article should give readers what they need, want, and crave!
Anything less, and all the resources you’ve put into creating your
knowledge base articles will go to waste. That’s why it’s crucial that you
deliver your readers accurate, valuable information. After all, your
knowledge base is the most legitimate source of information about your
software and its features. You need to provide trustworthy, well-organised
content, in easy-to-read chunks. knowledge base system should have these
essential elements. Excellent readability – users should be able to focus
on your content only. Killer search function – it’s vital for quick and
effortless navigation.
Mobile friendly –
with most users accessing information from their smartphones, you need to
make your knowledge base available from any device. Cost-effective – you
should calculate costs try to get the best value for your money. Analytics
– this feature helps you gather valuable data about your users and their
habits. This way, you can improve your service based on your public’s
preferences.
Feedback collection – your
customers should be able to evaluate your content. Integration – the
perfect knowledge base software should be easy to integrate with all the
other tools you use to grow your business.
Quick
setup – the less time you need to install and update the software,
the better. This way, you can focus on creative tasks rather than
technical details. Provide your customers with the best services.
Collecting knowledge
is nothing new, humans have been doing it for 100s of years, they're
called books. But now in the digital age we can greatly expand on our
version of the
book. So
instead of just telling
a short story,
we can tell
the whole story. And not just
give one version of a story, but give almost every version of the story.
So the listener will not just walk away with memories of a story, but will
walk away with a
never ending
story that gives them a better understanding of themselves and the
world around them.
If you say that something is
only part of the story or is
not the whole story, you mean that the explanation or information given is
not enough for a situation to be fully understood.
"
I'm just
one of the editors. I'm not the sole creator or the sole architect, I'm just very
good at what I do,
collecting and
organizing valuable knowledge and information. Not to
say that I'm an expert, because
I'm still learning and still making
improvements. So the best is yet to come."
If you keep reading BK101, you
will keep learning. BK101 will teach you something new everyday, something
that you didn't know before. BK101 is like a bible, but not the Christian
holy book type of bible, but a bible that is regarded as authoritative in
its field, with that field being human knowledge. What does it mean to be
human? And why is knowledge so extremely important? When you learn that
knowledge is the holy grail, and that knowledge is that greatest source of
power and energy, then you will
never stop learning.