25+ years of personal knowledge management
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25+ years of personal knowledge management
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Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#2> digital native
Don't know what that is.
But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - probably breaking all sorts of local polution statutes.
Realistically, the amount of useful information you need to store can probably be put on to one USB stick, or less (is there anything less these days?).
Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#3> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Since a few years, the question that pops in my head whenever I think about storing for long term are (i) always be dying (ii) it is not about me.
It is extremely liberating when your internal flowchart for an item reaches -- this can be thrown out without affecting anyone or me.
Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#4> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Physical size (one USB stick) is an ineffective unit of data.
Pretty sure we can fit all the data you burnt in on one USB stick today.
Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#5It sounds a bit familiar. I'm glad Google services and github take care of organizing and backup of data, so not much time wasted on that.
Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#6> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bullshit ? This depict children born in 80s, 90s and supposedly comfortable with computer work and data as they were born amongst them.
Re: 25+ years of personal knowledge management
#7> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bullshit ? This depict children born in 80s, 90s and supposedly comfortable with computer work and data as they were born amongst them.
I dunno. I'm a native Brit (birth and language), and I haven't come across it before now. But I'm not a Web maniac.
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#8> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bullshit ? This depict children born in 80s, 90s and supposedly comfortable with computer work and data as they were born amongst them.
We use it in Spain too.
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#9>I had clear naming conventions for everything. For movies: (YYYY) (EN|FR|JP|...) (). For TV series: \Sxy_. Consistency was essential for me to be able to stay sane. It also made it much simpler to automate various operations.
This made me cringe. Why renaming a proper warez release ? Back in the day, the scene was very organised and got pretty strict schemes and rules regarding naming release, and today it still allows to know exactly what you got.
>And again, as you can imagine, harmonizing the names was tough. And there was more. Sound also needed to be normalized. Fortunately, there were tools to help with that.
The guy clearly didn't have access to proper releases ;)
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#10> digital native Don't know what that is. But I do know that saving everything is just piling up problems for your children. My Dad died 7 years ago, and left behind an astounding amount of data and programs on CD, VHS, hard drives etc. My two brothers, who were his executors (I was not doing well mentally at the time), looked at each other and said: "Shall we go through all this?", "No". And it went on a bonfire - p…
Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bullshit ? This depict children born in 80s, 90s and supposedly comfortable with computer work and data as they were born amongst them.
As an en-US person, I can say confidently we do not use it in daily speech. I can intuit what it means, but I've never been taught it or been in a conversation where it was used in any way that stood out enough to create a memory.