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Being open or not, that is the question

I keep being surprised at how such a large fraction of people around me want to hoard knowledge as if it was food. It is wrong on many levels. Your knowledge is more valuable when you share it. We are not competing for knowledge because knowledge is not scarce. In global economy, if you don’t share your knowledge, someone else will, you will simply be put out of the loop. You have to think yourself as an information node. Information nodes where data comes in but not out are broken and of little value.

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Well said Daniel. What make profesionals (when I say profesionnal, I am talking about someone that work and learn about his domains for decades) worth his pay is not his “secret” knowledge of the domain, no, it’s the commun knowledge he have of it, and the intepretation he do of it.