> I'm referring to making a deliberate design decision to discard data at a later time. I'm willing to bet that your cloud storage or SaaS applications likely s

> I'm referring to making a deliberate design decision to discard data at a later time. I'm willing to bet that your cloud storage or SaaS applications likely serve as dumping grounds for outdated, forgotten files and artifacts. This doesn’t have to be the case. IMO there is no way to do this programmatically that satisfies all of your users. What the author describes is organizational debt, and the only way to deal with it effectively is to have the organizational will to periodically clean up that debt. It's not easy, and any shortcut comes with it's own drawbacks (see corporate data retention policies that inevitably nuke documentation or context).