And you know, I understood that memory and personal records and stuff like that, that seemed to be related to time—like, of course they are! But both Sarah and Charan have helped me understand how our drive to document things—whether with diaries or photos or just memories in your head—those are kind of symptoms of that desire to “hold on to” our

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“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games. I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's... See more

We have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we

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