A realisation on the nature of information storage

In opening up the ID for the topic of this afternoon's Small Business Zoom session – 33.22 Annual SBS TGIF cycle – I had one of those tiny niggles of annoyance that comes from not being able to instantly recall the location of a thing.¹

Moments later the ID was found, and with it a deep realisation about the nature of systems like Johnny.Decimal: that, at the very least, they force you to store your information somewhere.

This is best demonstrated with the counter-point: storing your information nowhere. By which I mean, on your Desktop. Or just in a floating text document that you never dare close. Or in a chat window, or in one of 40 SharePoint folders whose locations you can never recall.

Forcing you to choose an actual place – an ID, that you had to create – is a touch annoying. It's extra work: I've never pretended that it was 'free' from a mental perspective.

But, when trying to find this thing just now, there was a baseline sense of comfort: the thing is somewhere.

I'm very impatient. ↩

A realisation on the nature of information storage

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