- links live within and establish context. they tell you what a piece of information means *within* the confines of the greater network. a thing is not just a thing on its own, but an expansion, rebutter, tangent, example, follow-up to others. - navigating from one document to a related document via hyperlink is a means of building context around a query or thought. - especially in [[4. knowledge management and life infostructures|knowledge management]], without links, our thoughts drift; too many drifting thoughts become noise. - [[Caulfield, Mike - 2024 - Google Search is an overlay]]: ![[Caulfield, Mike - 2024 - Google Search is an overlay#^fb8633]] - consider this in contrast to the way [[{1.2a2a} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network]]; thinking and publishing via [[digital gardens are collections of densely linked notes that evolve over time|digital gardens]] to combat [[the internet has been suburbanized|suburbanization]].