Matthew

I started this website as a project to explore thinking. Because writing is thinking. It started slowly but began to

Over the past year, I wrote an article every week and sent it to a growing list of curious readers. The topics were eclectic, sometimes meandering, but always related to a simple question: how do you come up with a good idea?

One of the big ideas in having a minimum viable mindset is to get your ideas out in to the

“Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw”, says Bill Kaelin, Nobel laureate and professor of medicine. Scientists need to write papers that include fewer grand claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable. Scientists need minimum viable discoveries.

One of the key functions of science is to organize knowledge. Scientists take new information and classify and categorize it — connect it with the known. Name it. But knowing the name of the thing is not the same as knowing the thing.

The DIKW triangle is a way to organize the relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. When I first came across this model, it resonated with me. But I wanted to understand: how do you move up the hierarchy?