My solution has been to just remember the important stuff, or at least where to find it. I'm not dead yet so I guess it works.
My solution has been to just remember the important stuff, or at least where to find it. I'm not dead yet so I guess it works.
It was my solution too, and I liked it, but over the past decade or so, I noticed that even when I remember where to find some stuff, hell, even if I just remember how to find it, when I actually try and find it, it often isn't there anymore. "Search rot" is just as big a problem as link rot.
As for being still alive, by that measure hardly anything anyone does is important in the modern world. It's pretty hard to fail at thinking or remembering so badly that it becomes a life-or-death thing.
> hardly anything anyone does is important
Agreed.
I’ve found that whenever I think “why don’t other people just do X” it’s because I’m misunderstanding what’s involved in X for them, and that generally if they could ‘just’ do X then they would.
“Why don’t you just” is a red flag now for me.
Not always. I love it when people offer me a much simpler solution to a problem I overengineered, so I can throw away my solution and use the simpler one.
Half the time people are suggested a better way, it's because they're actually doing it wrong, they've gotten the solution's requirements all wrong in the first place, and this perspective helps.
this applies to basically any suggested solution to any problem.
"Why don't you just ..." is just lazy idea suggestion from armchair internet warriors.