Maybe it is because I have educator DNA, but I enjoy explaining things.
I still teach several subjects, and Korean is the main subject I teach.
One thing I consider especially important when teaching Korean is not letting incorrect expressions become ingrained as habits.
Once an error becomes fossilized, it is very difficult to correct.
If you repeatedly use something you have learned incorrectly for a long time, it may not be easy to correct even after you later learn the accurate form. Even with several times more effort, you may keep returning to the old incorrect expression, and in some cases, you may never fully correct it.
That is why, when I studied, among the things I knew, the things I did not know, and the things I was confused about, I disliked the things I was confused about the most.
If I do not know something, I can simply learn it.
But when something is confusing, similar information has already taken its place in my mind, making it much harder to distinguish what is actually correct.
So, if possible, it is best not to learn something incorrectly in the first place.
IT and AI Are Easy to Get Confused About Right Now
I think IT and AI are similar in this respect.
People have already heard many IT terms.
Terms such as digital transformation, cloud computing, big data, platforms, artificial intelligence, generative AI, and AI agents continue to appear in the news and corporate announcements.
Interest in digital technology and development grew further after COVID-19, and now AI has become a topic across almost every industry.
So rather than people who know nothing at all, there are actually more people who have picked up many things here and there but are not sure whether what they know is accurate.
I think this is exactly the kind of situation in which errors can easily become fossilized.
Once a misunderstood concept becomes familiar and similar expressions continue to be repeated, it becomes even harder later to distinguish what the accurate explanation is.
That is where the DANA NOTES slogan began.
The fastest way to understand IT is to reduce misunderstandings about IT.
What DANA NOTES wants to do is also simple.
Explain things simply and accurately.
Not leaving out important structures just because they are difficult, and not leaving people with something different from reality just because it is easier to explain that way.
That is the standard I consider most important.
My Writing May Feel a Little Cold
I am sometimes told that my writing feels cold.
I am not naturally someone who uses many warm expressions, but when dealing with important information, it is also my habit to remove unnecessary modifiers and say only what is needed.
This is especially true when discussing the possibilities of a company, a technology, or an industry.
Different people consider different things important.
For one person, cost may matter most, while for another, stability or growth potential may matter more.
So I try not to unnecessarily create the impression that a particular direction is better or worse.
As much as possible, I want to explain facts as facts and structures as structures.
I Want to State My Thoughts Clearly, but I Do Not Want Them to Become the Reader’s Conclusion
It is still not easy for me to write analytical pieces that strongly reflect personal opinions.
That is because I do not think my views are always correct, nor do I think my judgment is always the best one.
So I find it a little difficult to write in the way some other analysts do—reaching a strong conclusion first and then trying to persuade readers of that conclusion.
Instead, there is something I can do with confidence.
Explain the fields I have studied and specialized in so that people without that background can understand them.
I am confident in checking the facts I know, explaining difficult concepts, and showing how technologies and companies are connected structurally.
Of course, my own thoughts are also included in DANA NOTES articles.
I try to clearly write about the points I consider important while reviewing materials, as well as the questions and opinions that come to mind as I connect different facts.
But I do not want those thoughts to simply become the reader’s conclusion.
The purpose of DANA NOTES is not to transfer my thoughts into the reader’s mind.
What I want to do is closer to explaining as much of the information needed for judgment as possible, so that readers can use that information to think again according to their own standards.
After That, I Would Like Us to Talk About It Together
After reading an article, I hope readers will think about it once more.
“Oh, so this is how it is structured.”
“Then maybe this is why this company made this choice.”
“But I see this part differently?”
Once they have formed their own thoughts like that, I would like them to talk with me about them.
I enjoy discussion.
Even when looking at the same information, people can reach different conclusions, and another person’s standards or experiences may help me see something I had not noticed.
I can also gain new perspectives from those conversations.
So if DANA NOTES grows, I hope it becomes more than a site where people simply finish reading an article. I hope it becomes a space where people can come back with their own thoughts and talk about them together.
Rather than,
“My view is this. So this is how you should think.”
“We have looked at this together up to this point. What do you think?”
And after that,
“Then I hope we can talk about this topic together.”
That is closer to the kind of relationship DANA NOTES wants to create.
Five Things DANA NOTES Tries to Uphold
- Keep the facts as accurate as possible.
- Provide enough structure to understand.
- Keep explanations simple and accurate.
- Do not hide uncertainty.
- Leave room for readers to think for themselves.
Rather than being a place that delivers the correct answer, DANA NOTES wants to be a starting point for understanding things accurately and forming your own thoughts.
After reducing misunderstandings one by one and understanding the structure,
that is when we can start talking about it together.