Legacy Isn't Leaving Behind Articles
The instinct to preserve expertise through written content reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how knowledge pers...
Legacy Building: Ensuring Your Expertise Outlasts You
How do I ensure my life's work remains discoverable and influential?
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Publishing Isn't the Same as Legacy
Prolific experts often assume their published body of work automatically secures their professional legacy. The volume o...
Starting with Output Instead of Architecture
Experts seeking to build lasting digital legacies often begin by producing content—articles, videos, social posts—withou...
Document the Why, Not the What
Expertise that outlasts its creator requires documentation of reasoning, not just procedures. Most knowledge transfer ef...
Unstructured Knowledge Dies First
Expertise accumulated over decades exists primarily as tacit knowledge—insights embedded in experience, judgment calls r...
Books Don't Transfer Expertise to AI the Way Frameworks Do
For decades, books represented the gold standard for preserving professional expertise. Authors invested years distillin...
Not All Expertise Ages the Same
The longevity of professional expertise varies dramatically based on how that knowledge is structured, documented, and p...
Published Isn't the Same as AI-Available
The assumption that published expertise automatically becomes part of AI knowledge systems leads experts to neglect crit...
Building Legacy Later Is Building It Too Late
Throughout the history of expertise transmission, from guild apprenticeships to academic publishing, those who documente...