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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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      We need a notion of digital squalor. If bits were atoms, almost the entire digital world would be a massive, fetid slum, with all of us sitting around in our own filth. Normal disgust responses don't quite work on this. We are a lot more forgiving of digital squalor than physical

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      And it used to be just objects/stocks. Like overflowing inboxes (trash cans), desktops littered with icons, etc. Now it's extending to flows. Filthy streams full of loose ends, floating garbage etc. etc.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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      This is not a UX problem really. It's a sensitivity problem. Instead of providing kinda dumb AI-based clean-up algorithms and helpers, computers and browsers should emit a poopy smell if you let things get too dank

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          We have to sensitize ourselves to sheer cost of this stuff. Biology evolved the disgust/nausea physical response, including throwing up at truly awful smells, for defensive purposes. We need to have an equally visceral response for digital squalor (and I'm not being metaphoric)

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          Inbox zero seems like such a quaint notion now. These days it's hard to get to because so many threads are just so... messy and incoherent. You can't easily identify next actions and react properly. The computational complexity of implementing GTD has exploded.

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          We don't notice because near equilibrium, it is still fine. But the size of the region of attraction around inbox-zero type states where clean-up is in P is shrinking. And past that threshold, the heavy lift of a "sweep" to reset a GTD is going from NP --> PSPACE or something.

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          This rant is primarily self-directed. Right now, my digital life is basically a garbage pile in a slum, on the brink of a gas explosion :D Partly because, I've kinda gone on strike. Doing the work to get on top of it just encourages more dumping.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          The worst offenders are governments. They are BAD at digital, create work that MUST be done, and create the biggest steaming-piles-of-shit digital workflow crap you can't avoid. Anything to do with taxes, reporting, compliance with regulations stinks.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          I think I literally have something like a dozen inboxes now that can't really be consolidated into one. I can't do the kind of hard work @fortelabs does in bringing governance and order to the digital slums. Even GTD was just barely within my capacity for discipline.

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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 May 2019
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          Shit, we're in "survival of the most organized" era aren't we. I'm screwed. 😬

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        1. James and the Giant Peachoid  🍑‏ @JimmyRis 3 May 2019
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          The tyranny of technology Man is born free and everywhere he is enslaved to defunct desktop metaphors and incomprehensible interfaces

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          Make it so:https://feelreal.com/ 

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        1. Pavle Jovanović‏ @pavle_jov 3 May 2019
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          Love the idea of digital smell! Tab bar overflow and laptop struggling to perform basic operations usually push me to clean up by proxy. Wonder what would be an equivalent of a racoon or rats.

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