What is knowledge reorganization?

Knowledge reorganization is a concept in personal epistemology: When your hierarchy becomes awkward restructure it rather than forcing things to fit.

Example: You've organized your professional knowledge under 'Technical Skills' and 'People Skills.' But coaching engineers, running architecture reviews, and writing technical RFCs all straddle both categories. You keep jamming them under one or the other with mental footnotes. The hierarchy isn't wrong — it's outgrown. Split the axis: organize by activity type (building, reviewing, teaching, deciding) instead of by skill domain. The cross-cutting items now have natural homes, and you stop maintaining a mental exception list.

This concept is part of Phase 14 (Hierarchy and Nesting) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for hierarchy and nesting.