[bdangubic]

This reminds of talking to my nephew at Thanksgiving years ago. He was studying for an exam after the holidays and I was looking at his screen open to a Google Doc which looked like his study notes except - they were being edited as I was watching - by someone else. I asked about it and he goes “we have a single Google Doc where all students collaborate on the study notes.” My mind was blown, I was also using Google Docs but not in a millions years would it cross my mind its utility for such a thing he and his classmates were using it for. Can’t wait to see what new blood “Juniors” brings to the table!

[whattheheckheck]

Collective cognition is effectively what all knowledge work is. The programmers are the dunces that can't keep it all in their heads and need explicit type systems and databases to manage state unlike the genius business analysts and SMEs

[AuthAuth]

All students collaborating on notes kind of defeats the point no? As I see it study notes are reminders to link you back to when you were reviewing the material. If you never wrote the notes you wont get that connection back to the material.

[bdangubic]

The shared study notes represent shared understanding of the topics at hand. Different people grasp concepts in different way and seeing how other people think/understand/deduce/... (at least for me) makes a world of difference.

Like seeing a PR and going "holy s**, would never have dreamed of doing it that way" - I have learned A LOT in a looooong SWE career from that...

[AuthAuth]

I agree that collectively they understand but they dont sit the exam collectively. If it works, it works I guess.

[bitwize]

On the one hand, this is the kind of closed mind the zen guy in the root comment was talking about.

On the other hand, you're probably right...

[saulpw]

Perhaps wisdom is closing your mind to common stupidity.