<div dir="ltr"><div>Congratulations Jim from all of us at CBI! I had the privilege of being able to read this highly insightful book early, in doing a back cover blurb. Highly recommended!!</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b> </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM James Cortada via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I wanted to share with my colleagues that Bloomsbury Publishing has just published my new book about information. This one is about tacit knowledge. <span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I have completed another book, </span><i style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Beyond the Facts. </i><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">This one is about tacit knowledge—what we
learn through experience that remains in our subconscious until we need to use
it.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">People know more tacit knowledge
(wisdom) than explicit knowledge (facts, data, etc.).</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Tacit knowledge is difficult to explain and
now with AI consuming so much explicit information, we need to better
understand tacit forms so that we can appreciate its relationship to AI and explicit
knowledge.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I integrated findings of
brain scientists and the thinking of philosophers into a short book that
describes tacit knowledge and how it is normally applied.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I want to increase awareness of the vast
amount of information and wisdom that we stockpile between our ears.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Attached is a coupon for a discounted price for
the book, if ordered directly from the publisher. If you read the book, please give me some feedback, because this is a really hard topic to understand and I will probably have to keep working on it. Jim Cortada</span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mfbfq3cc0" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-08 at 8.12.43 AM.png" width="542" height="521"><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>James W. Cortada</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div>
<div>Charles Babbage Institute</div><div>University of Minnesota</div>
<div><a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank">jcortada@umn.edu</a></div>
<div>608-274-6382</div></div></div></div>
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