perhaps...

I'm reading the book 'Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room' by David Weinberger.

"Russell Ackoff, a leading organizational theorist, 

sketched a pyramid that has probably 

been redrawn on a white board every hour since... 

Ackoff was not the first person to propose this 

data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) idea."

Think about T.S. Eliot who wrote these lines:

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Then, today, I came upon this TED talk that helped me make a few connections between data and information and thinking and what we ultimately call wisdom:


Perhaps, all knowledge and experience is an interpretation. Thinking is infinite and unbounded, but add in some perspective and creativity... and you have a thing of beauty.