Application of Information Percolation

The word percolation essentially means to filter a porous substance (in this case information) so as to extract better quality of it. Linguistically it goes to follow that to percolate is to cause such a filtering condition, or in other words to instigate percolation.Considering the minute detail that Information Percolation sprang up just recently out of necessity and lack of a more descriptive short combination of words in the English language. Basically, it teaches to: know your filter well ahead of time; percolate information as you go; don’t forget to percolate theraoughly especially that information which gets you forgetting about it from excitement.

Not enough abstractions yet? Still a bit fuzzy about Information Percolation?

I like to conjure the following mental picture, or should I say geometric scale. Any distinct piece of information at the very moment of its creation is well represented by a segment, or a line with two ends. However, since none of us are perfect, rarely is the information which we get – at its source. What that implies is that by the time information gets to us it’s stopped being a calm line and it’s become a vector – a line with a distance.

The direction of the information’s destination is almost entirely conjured by the person who carries it along the way … every one of em. Regardless of whether they’re intending it to happen or not, the person bringing “the news” to us will relay it with their personal impressions… expressed!

So, bottom line – I don’t know about yours, but my life’s pretty short. I don’t plan on making it shorter by wasting ludicrous hours and nerves because of well disguised junk information online. And not to mention – too dependent on the high-rating of associated information – I’ve designed for myself at first, and now everyone else interested, a logically simple, yet nowhere to be heard yet system for getting as close to an ‘expert opinion’, as we would be permitted.

The single most necessary condition for Information Percolation to occur is the eagerness of the one doing the percolating. That person must see the irrevocable reason behind the method of percolation and then otherwise boring tasks like research and long readings … become really enjoyable.

Information percolation in particular is all about having an open mind. An open mind, not only to get going with percolation, but the very process itself, is much more effective when that open mind is used to imagine more possibilities out there, unimagined alternatives spring up…. An open mind!