you are part of a great computational fluidization of human cognition. You're just one instance in a liquid cloud of human intelligence, your thoughts entangled with those of others in a giant ongoing computation. It's a kind of computational civic duty, like voting. Sometimes it is fun, other times it is not, but it always important.

— https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding

• online knowledge exchange, blogs, etc. have the same shape that my external and internal brain
  • interlinked information
  • some of them hard to find
  • some of them hard to connect to others
• is the internet a second-order external brain? (Human Colossus) - probably not, due to workshop vs library differences