FAQ – Enolve

At the Frontier of Technology

As part of a new field called “decision intelligence” enolve is at the frontier of philosophy, psychology, and computer science. Sometimes this can make the concepts we deal with a bit abstract and even confusing. Start to understand enolve better by finding answers to common questions here!

Frequently asked questions

How is enolve different from social media and news sites?

Publication of recent events and newsworthy discussions are important affairs. However, never-ending newsfeeds can leave us stressed and overwhelmed. Because of its architecture, enolve creates a stable, structured legacy platform to be used for reference, rather than an ever changing, noisy, chaotic newsfeed. Enolve will feature social functionalities for engagement and discussions, but our primary focus is to create a streamlined environment for working together on shared goals and values. In other words: enolve is a purpose driven social media platform for collaborative problem-solving. .

How is enolve different from traditional search engines?

Search engines find information based on keywords from a crowdsourced platform called “the world wide web”. This is an effective way to find human generated information. Enolve creates an entirely new crowdsourced platform, populated only with a specific type of information: Problems, goals, and solutions. This can be seamlessly integrated into the world wide web (for example solutions can be linked to web apps, or problems can be linked to research articles). This way, enolve creates an additional layer for the WWW that accelerates navigation when making decisions and finding solutions to problems online.

How is enolve different from an online encyclopedia?

Encyclopedias are useful tools to reference detailed knowledge and information. Different articles can even be linked across the encyclopedia for easier reference. Enolve is focused on concisely communicating specific problems, solutions, and goals. This way, enolve helps you understand when it may be necessary to do research using an encyclopedia, and when it’s time for you to be creative and come up with novel solutions.

How is enolve different from Q&A sites and discussion forums?

Q&A sites, bulletin boards, and forums are essentially “comment sections” with different styles and variations. Comment sections are linear conversations about one topic. Connecting, and referencing to another topic is possible, but it’s not a core feature or the intended purpose of comment sections. While enolve will also give you the ability to comment on all entries, the primary feature of enolve is to CONNECT entries in 4 different directions ([1] root causes, [2] issues/symptoms, [3] terminal goals, [4] solutions). This creates an interconnected, multidimensional network. Instead of just scrolling down a newsfeed, or scrolling down a comment section, enolve gives you 4 choices in which direction you want to further explore the network: You can explore root causes, symptoms, goals, or solutions for each problem. The real trick is the “recursive” nature of enolve: Every root cause or symptom is a further problem-entry, which you can then once again explore in multiple directions. In order words, enolve creates an explorable map of knowledge, to help us orient ourselves and find the right path - or create an entirely new path that no one has taken before.

Can enolve be used as a project management tool?

Project management tools range from to do lists and calendars to objectives and key result (OKR) tracking methods and other gamification systems to stay on top of work and keep things organized, and focus on outcomes. Enolve is less concerned with the “how to get work done” (because lots of solutions exist for this problem and variations of it). Instead enolve focuses on the “what should we work on, and why” problem. In an ocean of software tools and apps, enolve helps you decide on the one that works best for your needs and goals.

How will solutions be ranked and validated?

Solutions posted on enolve can be criticized by connecting further problems to the solution. This makes continuous innovation easier, but it also helps spot cognitive biases, break echo chambers, and overcome misconceptions as well as limiting beliefs. Techniques like the Page Rank algorithm or similar methods are effective at calculating the relevance of entries based on the number of their connections. Additionally, a solution that we propose to discourage spam and abuse of the platform is the in-app economy, employing a “proof of value” for each entry. On a deeper, more philosophical level, it has been shown that there is no algorithm for truth. The problem of finding out what’s true and what is real appears to be unsolvable in this universe (For reference, see Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Berry’s Paradox). However, with enolve we are creating a tool that helps us explore many possible truths and realities from various perspectives, and connect them in one cohesive, referenceable body of knowledge. This may or may not allow us to create paradigm shifts by finding creative, outside-the-box solutions to problems that were previously thought unsolvable.

I don’t understand much of this, but I really wanna learn more. What should I do?

We offer a lot of educational video content as well as classes, courses, and 1 on 1 coaching. To become an expert problem solver and an enolve specialist, check out our Training section to see our current educational offerings.

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