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Being ephemeral is both a bug and a feature, though. Take a random Discord server, where we try to figure out some details of a DAO in the making. People from
by bjornklose 5y ago
Being ephemeral is both a bug and a feature, though.
Take a random Discord server, where we try to figure out some details of a DAO in the making. People from other timezones have to hop in and out and are welcomed by a wall of text when they come back.
So did the issue from yesterday get resolved already since you were gone? Maybe, but if so, how did that agreement come to fruition? And which part of the above wall of text do we "mark as resolved"?
What part to keep, what to formalize as a rule, etc. Those who were "in the room" when the discussion happened now have to find a way to re-tell the story in another ritual (meeting, weekly summary, task, whatnot). Sounds like the work of an editor or journalist to me.
But most people would rather add onto, instead of editing or removing only [1]. Like with maintaining legacy software or editing existing wikipedia entries, most prefer to instead just "add some more".
But even more important, some people tend to disregard even scientifically proven advice and prefer living through things themselves, no matter how redundant the experience.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/bias-problem-solving-nature/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/bias-prob...
(which i found via HN back then)