## 20:19 xx

### ode to open data

everyone wants their product, their framework, their idea to last
forever – to continue to sustain all use cases and empower all users in
perpetuity.

This is never the case. Practices go out of style, code ages and
deprecates. Companies rise, switch priorities and give up. Maintainers
have families and run out of time. We can't count on the products we use
or make to last forever, or even more than a couple of months longer.

The principal issue with this approach is the data silo. Proprietary
code running a software-as-a-service product often allows users to
input, format and manipulate their data – take services like are.na,
Roam Research, or notion.so for example. These tools serve as
repositories for our data. Even services like Spotify and Facebook,
though initially not meant for this purpose, become siloes for our
memories – they store our posts, text messages, and interactions with
one another over a long period of time, free to revisit at any moment.

When these products go under, this data disappears. There's no way to
back it up, extract it or reuse it. The last employee to leave flips the
switch and shuts down all of the servers on the way out… goodbye data,
regardless of how much time you've invested in the platform. This
happened to me on Google Keep, on various startup notetaking services
and social media products that fluttered out of existence as quickly as
they began, taking some priceless data with them. It's just like losing
my notebook the first semester of college: all of my journal entries,
accurate knowledge of my emotions at the time, gone into the wind.

## i feel so small

why? i'm 21. i'm skilled. i have merit i think. what's holding me back?

### etc

the deindustrialization of america has hurt the middle class everything
is broken but how to we fix this life is all about temptation - buying
and selling ideas! ava: inconspicuous consumption. what makes
youacceptable is the accrual of a thousand different pieces of knowledge

### elliott erwit: photographer

take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby i want pictures that
are emotional through china with a camera: john thomson

## 23:48 distribute fact checking

<https://abe-winter.github.io/only/fans/2020/11/29/everything-in-moderation.html>
this is exactly my idea lmao @ url but