## FAQ *What brings you here?* No yeah I also find it incredibly amazing that I am here at this moment isn't it? First of all PKM being somewhat a pretty niche area, and second being the only teenager in this room, and third having this conversation with you, so yeah, unbelievable isn't it! But yeah, I have a strong passion for PKM and I learned about this summit I forgot from whom on Youtube. I searched it up, and was lilke, damn, that's so close to me, and plus if I can get off of school for one day, why not? and Voila, here I am. No yeah, I do sort of enjoy this irony and drama of being at the wrong place at the wrong time sort of scenario, at the wrong time meaning at the wrong age. Of course it's a big big challenge for me to cosntatly talk with adults for a whole day, especially when I'm slightly autistic, but I guess no offense those who love taking notes are at least slightly autistic, according to Tiago Forte, not sure if you've seen his twitter post on this. *PKM help my learning?* ## Questions to ask others - What do you do for work? - Wow, those are very big words! Sounds like "Macro Data Refinement" for me! Have you watched "Severance"? ... I think someone said if you can't explain something to a teenager -- me, you don't really understand it -- so, may I ask for more elaboration on what exactly is it that you do? - Why do you think knowledge management is important for your life? How does it help you exactly? What are your approaches? Is there an appproach or workflow that you discover to be working best for you? - How long have you been diving in this community? For how did you learn about this conference? ## Deeper / Interview Questions We've defintely talking a lot about PKM here for these two days, and I do think we all agree that Knowledge Management definitely helps personal discovery, personal development, and our decision-making. However, I wonder if it would be helpful to jump out of the "P" for a moment, and explore more about "KM" in general-- besides faciliating personal development, what does Knowledge Management do, and how does it help and what's its role in a broader scale, so for example in organizations, in an industry, in academica, or even broader, in our society, and for humanity. So just trying to make sense of what we are doing here from a broader perspective -- yes PKM is fun and it's helpful, but how, if possible does it help solve all the problems facing humanity, and how does it lead to a better world outside this conference. I recently read a paper from CalTech saying that human brain can only process data at less than 10 bits per second, which is significanly lower than the slowest computer we have on this planet. In fact surprising as it seems, if you think about it, I do think it's kinda true, right, for example, we can't really multitask, we can only think of one thing at a time, it's takes painfully long to write an essay and formulate our ideas into articles and books. So, what do you think of this -- the slowliness of our brain in processing information, and what implication do you think this have on our knowledge management? ## My Belief & Idea I believe that in knowledge management -- and knowledge transfer actually -- lie the key to solving humanity's big problems. If we accpet the model that the information we take in dictate our behaviours and choices, when those behaviours are undesirable, whether for the ourself or for the larger soceity, the way to change lies in changing the information people consume, whether through setting up feedback loops, which enable people to see the impact of their behaviours, even if on the other side of Earth, or through education, media campaign, or what economists call nudges. These are all efforts to tweak the information that reaches people to thus influence their behaviours. This is especially important in an interconnected world filled with complex systems, where people are trapped by their bounded realities and cognitive biases, and often fail to see the whole picture and make optimal decisions. As a result, managing what our human civilization has discovered and developed in this millions of years, organizing them, and presenting them is the key to effect changes in people's choices. High quality decisions are only possible with high quality data, information, and especially knowledge of how the world works. I believe that after the infomation revolution in the 20th and 21st century marked by the advent of search engines and media platform that revolutionize the way humans interact with the world of information, we will also experience a knowledge revolution somewhere in the future. The past 20 years has already shown us the power of social media platforms and information in changing people's behaviours, some for the good and some not so good; for the future, humans really need to think more about how do we harness the power of all the information, and especially those we call knolwedge, to shape the future humanity wants, especially in the face of so many threats like climate change and the advent of AI. In fact speaking of AI, if we don't manage properly, there is a high probability that AI will hack the operating system of human civilizaton -- our langauge and the words. So yeah, at this point we definitely do not need more information -- we need to turn information into knolwedge that can be used to guide our decision-making toward a better future, for ourselves and for humanity. ## Checklist - [ ] Get a picture with Nicole & Nick - [ ] Podcast interview with someone, recorded on camera (Nick?)