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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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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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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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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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.2 replies 1 retweet 9 likesShow this thread -
Shit, we're in "survival of the most organized" era aren't we. I'm screwed.
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No one is organized. This is to me the prime import of "personal email server" scandals- even people with all the resources and assistance in the world are resorting to crude strategies like lots of email addresses
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No one solves this through habits, they solve it through the ability to hide failure
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This is not true. I've had extended periods of being highly organized. It's a characteristic of a particular state of work, where motivation, ability, and reward are in some sort of perfect storm balance. It's an unstable regime, but it isn't fictitious.
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It's out of your control since nearly all the variables are also (number one is personal health, number two is the personal health of your reports, number three is the personal health of your superiors)
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Being organized is only a little about what you do. You can let the shit pile in the barn but you are ultimately beholden to the number and size of your cows, and if you're lucky, your ability to call on Hercules to divert a river
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