A flash that says it all…
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A flash that says it all…
Agalia Tan added
why does this make me a little scared? like i’m desperately hoarding everything that i’ve done within gmail for the last 13 years — as though I’m able to remember everything that was done and believe that there is value in keeping them.
It’s the same thing with my whatsapp message where I keep everything from 8 years ago for that one time i’d choose to scroll back and see my younger self making a fool of herself :”)
What is it with digital artefacts that make it so difficult to let go? Is it because of the fact that it’s there?
Sarah added
- I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
from "What Does Sublime Actually Do?" by Sari Azout
Ezra Klein quote from his NYT opinion piece titled “Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.” from April, 2024
Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
... See morefrom The Folksonomy Edition by Colin Nagy
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