SV: [Sigia-l] Findability

[Derek R]

Ed wrote: 
>| The ability to find something
>| in a data store is a fundamental
>| requirement in our world.

I can't help but feel people are continually missing-the-mark on this
subject, as I understand it. 

There is the old proverb: 'Give a person a fish and feed them for a day;
Teach a person to fish and feed them forever' which is to say the
'ability to find something' is *consequential.* Do you understand? One
must *first* SEEK in order to FIND. 

'Finding,' in and of itself, is a DEAD-END -- it is *arrival* and does
not continue (being given a fish) -->
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=find
whereas 'seeking' is an endeavor which restores itself -- it does not
end, in and of itself (teaching to fish) -->
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=seek

Therefore, please attempt to understand my suggestion that the
'fundamental requirement' in our information world is NOT the 'ability
to find' ('findability'), but, the 'ability to seek' (scanning -- a
fulfillment of revelation). 

The 'ability to find' is vanity-oriented. 'Finding' depends on *what*
you are looking for, so that, the 'ability to find' item X is an
entirely different skill than the 'ability to find' item Y.

Conversely, the 'ability to seek/scan' for item X is the *same ability*
to 'seek/scan' for item Y. Seeking/scanning is not *fixated* (dependent)
on some 'glorious' end (vanity) which is ignorant of process (the
*how*). 

I know this sounds like a lot of semantic-jumbo, but this difference
really is the whole tamale: 

The 'ability to find' is superficial and taken to 'invention of
circumstances' (i.e. working inequity to achieve vanity -- playing smart
and not being clever).

The 'ability to seek/scan' is both genuine and capable, remaining free
from the bureaucracy of instance (showing attention to purpose).
	 

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