Digital mending circle
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TIL what a digital mending circle is.
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What, you ask, is a digital mending circle? A virtual co-working session for the kinds of oft-neglected maintenance tasks that accrue around our digital lives. Instead of darning socks and patching jeans, we update personal websites, delete unused accounts, work on side projects, or even just catch up on email.
I’ve been doing this ever since forever. December is always a great month to do so, as it’s quiet and uneventful…
The biggest issue is that going through cruft often reveals even more cruft.
A typical example: going through a list of bookmarks (or “read it later” items) will often generate even more links to sift through.