The Untold Tragedy Of Unwritten Secrets

You can’t unbury secrets unwritten in the past

All knowledge is hard if not impossible to be imparted and refined through human history without the advent of — writing. Hence, it has to be one of the most vital inventions if not the greatest in human history. Writing is the method of preserving and sharing knowledge in order to develop and enhance progress upon anything we have today. It is also a mark of intelligent civilization.

We have technological related disasters because of insufficiently well documented systems, what about undocumented lives?

We can’t discover flaws and faults efficiently for undocumented systems, how do we expect to improve people with undocumented lives?
— Ursa, 2020-08.09, Re: Diary of Merer on Khufu

A: Getting confused and going in circles is part of the learning curve.
Me: Nope, it’s usually part of poor documentation. — 2014–03.05

The Rosetta Stone and a reconstruction of how it would have originally looked.

Studying diverse languages gives us insights into human cognition, however, language diversity is at risk and languages are dying every year. Often a language’s death is recorded when the last known speaker dies, and…