Lurking | Learning

This has emerged as the main question folks have about the idea behind pulp:  “Why would I put anything I write up where all those lurkers can see it too?”

I don’t have a pat answer.  I think that thinking about thinking in an open-source sort of way does entail some risk of a form of idea piracy.  That’s not without basis, given the fact that a great deal of work in the design/research intersection has been ‘citation-free,’ largely, I think, due the perception among all kinds of practitioners that they need to be able to claim uniqueness in order to offer value, and that uniqueness

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