Notes on knowledge work

When your knowledge base is wrong about itself

A machine-maintained knowledge base has a failure mode a handwritten one does not: it can be wrong about itself and look entirely fine. What we found auditing our own wiki — and what follows from it.

Where did I read that? Every mention, in one place

DORA turns up in four things you read across three months. You remember two. Pith recognises the named things in everything you save — regulations, institutions, companies, people — and gathers every mention in one place.

Your reading, as one knowledge graph

You don't read in silos, so why store reading in them? Pith distils everything you save into one knowledge graph — and the adjacencies it surfaces are where the insight lives.

Concepts, not folders: how a knowledge base earns its keep over time

Folders make sense when you're filing. Concepts make sense when you're thinking. A knowledge base for consultants needs the second.

Briefings, not newsletters: the right output for a consulting knowledge base

Most teams confuse curation with publication. A weekly briefing is what you actually need — and it's not the same thing as a newsletter.