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Confessions of an Information Hoarder
We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we create.
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
"Any maximizing, economistic approach to living becomes a kind of hoarding as the means and ends reverse and it tips over into irrationality. It’s hoarding when I keep opening tabs, when I try to get to the end of my RSS article queue, when I use iTunes play counts to organize my listening habits, when I buy books I won’t live to read, when all ema... See more
Rob Horning • Clutter images
"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
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