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Aleksandrovon Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

I tried to categorize knowledges, it doesn't work, at least in my case. One knowledge could be in the multiple categories. So, then this is rather "tags" than "categories".

About visualization. It's impossible :) It will blow your mind if you will see the entire mindmap or at least few percents)) It will looks like this: http://blyon.com/blyon-cdn/opte/maps/static/1069646562.LGL.2...

Better way is to allow users to ask "How can I reach this knowledge?" And the answer will be displayed as quite small mindmap, which is leading user from his current situation, current knowledges to the knowledge he requested.

I agreed about philosophy as a last destination) May be it's only way) So, do you want to be the creator of the new philosophy?)

Aleksandrovon Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

Yeah, I thought about some "wiki" structure, initially. It could collect information, but what the quality will it be? This model doesn't help. And hierarchy of editors like in wiki will not help neither. Knowledges and bonds between them are very subjective. For example, three knowledges: HTML, PHP, JS. Are they bonded? Of course, they are! But how? Which one is the parental knowldge? Which one is child?

I think about another structure

Aleksandrovon Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma

Hi, Michael)

"information paralysis" Is that a problem? So, may be it is not? May be it's an opportunity) Let's solve it)

Imagine very-very big mindMap (like that, but much bigger http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QCtHZYRX_0w/UcbhaceT4MI/AAAAAAAAAW...). Imagine, each word in there is a single knowledge. All this knowledges are ether unbounded from each other or bounded in small groups and all placed chaotically. This is how it looks right now in most of the human minds and most of the Internet. So, would it be great, if we will create website which could bring order to all this knowledges through crowd-sourcing? And each knowledge will have bunch of links to courses, books, videos etc. It will be core structure to any useful information. This is the idea. I'm thinking about this sometimes. Just an Idea. Yet.

I could share more information, if someone will be interested in this)