Evidently, Scientists Have Identified Basic Principles of Communications. The theory goes that even though you read/listen one word at a time, your brain builds out a hierarchical tree of concepts, based upon its ability to group and arrange words and thoughts.
If you are at all a fan of O’Reilly’s Mind Hacks book, you’ll find the article interesting.
In the context of that article, here are two key reasons why ProjectPipe makes project data management easier:
- Everything in ProjectPipe can be managed as an outline. If your brain ultimately manages inbound communication as a hierarchy, then we’re saving the ol’ noggin a bit of work by setting up a tree-like hierarchy for your data in the first place
- Everything in ProjectPipe can be categorized with Tags. Tagging provides multi-dimensional data management without all the scary data modeling lingo. This is real useful for those cases where one or more pieces of data crosscut a number of discrete topical hierarchies in the larger, multidimensional “web of ideas”
While IANAPOLR (I am not a Physicist or Language Researcher), I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that presenting non-trivial information as an outline or hierarchy in the first place saves a great deal of the language parsing and structural encoding effort relative to the same information being presented in prose or a flat list.
In other words, organization accelerates cognition.
