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Popova identified the Benjamin Franklin effect in her blog (follows excerpt below in her blog post). The excerpt below reminds of why networks are helpful. "At age twenty-one, he formed a "club of mutual improvement" called the Junto. It was a grand scheme to gobble up knowledge. He invited working-class polymaths like him to have the chance to pool together their books and trade thoughts and knowledge of the world on a regular basis. They wrote and recited essays, held debates, and devised ways to acquire currency. Franklin used the Junto as a private consulting firm, a think tank, and he bounced ideas off the other members so he could write and print better pamphlets. Franklin eventually founded the first subscription library in America, writing that it would make "the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries," not to mention give him access to whatever books he wanted to buy."

interesting take on seven skills of knowledge work; a joint blog post by Fred Nickols, CPT and Joel Gardner, professor at Franklin University. June 1, 2015. From LinkedIn Community of Practice group. 1. thinking skills 2. communication 3. teamwork & leadership 4. lifelong learning/self-direction 5. technology use 6. ethics and professionalism 7. personal management