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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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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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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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.Show this thread -
Shit, we're in "survival of the most organized" era aren't we. I'm screwed.
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