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Knowledge has being a point of interest for me along the last 15 years. The first input was Knowledge Management, where I posted the seminal question: how a company could manage something that is 'personal'?. Trying to understand how knowledge could be defined as an asset, I begun looking for the definitions (in those times, Encarta was `the encyclopedia' and the DRAE was just coming on line): one pointing to mind and the other to soul. I get astonished as I knew that since the early 60’s of the past century, a lot of work and money has been put under artificial intelligence.  Ok with that there has not been what have being promised, but in that time, there were expert systems and so, some advances in understanding knowledge as a structure, so what where those references to mind and soul? I begun to work over it. And I found a broad area of interest where some knowledge management has to be carried for not getting lost.

We can see that from that days, the ones of Expert systems to now there has being more advance (let us pass through some examples: - Those photo cameras that finds the mouth and that gets the photo when there is a smile. - Those applications for advising about the route to somewhere. – The announce of a car that can drive by itself. – The automatic pilot of the airplanes… and, maybe, the most appealing: that robot that is ‘analyzing’ Mars. And don’t forget the web searchers and Wikipedia. All this ‘applications’ runs over computers and so, there should be adequate data structures and processes, processes to select a target, to take decisions and so on.) and, as all of them have being developed under some methodology, project control, adequate complex processes, managerial techniques and so on, we can expect that advances in understanding how to manage knowledge has being done and some clarification over what does mind is can be put over ten table.

Recently I began to work over Google+ and found a Community with the 'formal' name of Personal Knowledge Management; that title describes my approximation to this matter and from the readings of some posts over there, I decided to contribute with this 'pseudo theoretical' approach, in the aim of exposing what by myself has been developed over the matter and obtaining tips to align my knowledge over it.

I have not followed an MBA or alike, but I have being involved in management for most of my work life (I know that there could be several wife's, but are there several life's?) so at least It could be said that I have an intuition about what management means and as I have been involved in several innovations projects, also that I'm sensitive to what Management of Personal knowledge means.

It is obvious that this text has not the aim of an academic one. I think it should be positioned just as 'notes about' Personal Knowledge Management.

Some discussions have the form of 'the egg and the hen' one. Those are solved by the way of axioms. In those cases, the context text should suggest the point of view. For example the one about the essence of human being to be personal or social, in most cases here is stated that the subject, the person is first.

As exposition goes through facts, the discussion over evolutionism and creationism becomes irrelevant.  Saying that ‘It take nature a long period for an organism to fly, but humans did it just in a few decades (fifteen thousand years, if you want)’, does not imply anything about that 'the human capability to make airplanes' or the one of 'birds to fly' comes through evolution or by other mean. My personal approach is through evolutionism; sorry if I express it braking so this principle of irrelevance.

Why that subtitle?

Nature flows by doing. Human flows by thinking. Looks like some poetry didn't it? More about this issue in the Introduction.

Next steps

Writing about Personal management is new for me, so it will take time to arrive to some results. My interest is to check how the proposed Knowledge model behaves.

I'll do my best to try to maintain the ideas out an Self help approach or Coaching an so. I use to say that different technicians with the same data arrive to the same solution. I will see in this case if I could be considerer a 'technician of an unknown discipline'.