Tag: data hoarder

  • A Data Hoarder vaccination against TED Talks

    TED Talks have been around a while.  The current intro video says there’s something like 900 available online.  I can’t say for certain which one I watched first, but I was an early adopter, subscribing to the podcast feed, and so on.  In recent years, I fell away from them, mostly because (and I realize […]

  • Data hoarders: mentally “quirky” or just a different generation?

    I don’t like the TV show Hoarders, mostly because I don’t find it very uplifting and suspect the appeal is to make the viewers feel better about their own messes, because, you know, they’re not so bad.  But there’s another reason, and I spot it every time I look at my desktop full of files […]