SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations

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

“Google was invented so that people could learn about the world, not so researchers could learn about people,” wrote the data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “but it turns out the trails we leave as we seek knowledge on the internet are tremendously revealing.”