Tag: data

  • Data hoarding update: what about “knowing stuff”?

    So the other day @benlucier tweeted “Do you organize email by folders? An IBM study says you’re wasting your time: http://bvl.co/az” [PDF] and I found myself in the middle of a “wait for a thing to happen on my computer” cycle, so I gave way to temptation. After all, I’m still one of those holdouts who […]

  • 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 […]