I finally ran out of space in my laptop. I purchased this particular laptop in 2017. To be fair, I’ve been accumulating, and purging things, for almost 20 years. So even though I’ve had this laptop for about 6 years,…
Category: Deletion
Purging in the Time of Pandemic: Electronic Stuff
Last week I posted about two key areas in your home, the kitchen and bathroom, where you can purge (or use up) stuff while maintaining social distance. The stuff in these two rooms can often be handled without the need…
Saving Too Much
Saving everything (aka too much), goes against a default humans have contended with forever. Humans could never save everything for a host of reasons, such as time to process everything and the space to store it all. This mainly applies…
Not Built for Deletion
A lot of apps that we use come equipped with default options to save everything. For example, removing the inbox label from an email in Gmail automatically results in the item being “archived.” Or with my iPad, when I delete…
What are cookies? And are they bad?
Cookies are tiny packets of data that get saved to your computer every time you use a website. They are used for all kinds of things related to performance (e.g., auto-fill for passwords or logins, remembering your location and preferences,…