It’d been months since we’d caught up, and we had a meandering conversation, the best kind that webs and flows between all kinds of topics. Through it, he casually put his finger on a common thread between several of my current and past interest.

How is knowledge captured and passed on?

It’s information architecture, it’s design research, it’s databases, it’s knowledge management, it’s communities, it’s workshops… it’s stories, and it’s creating the space for them to emerge and the space for them to them to be listened to.

There’s a string here that needs to be pulled and pulled and pulled. Wow.