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Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data
Make software that is capable to forget and decay information.
In file-based systems, this may be manageable, but in shared SaaS applications, everything created (dashboards, notebooks, diagrams) lingers indefinitely and remains searchable and discoverable. I'm not convinced that the work required to implement any of those things is why it does not exist, I think it's more likely that there is a belief that keeping stuff around forever is a benefit over the limitations of the real world. Imagine dashboard software with built-in “garbage collection”: everything created starts with a short time-to-live (say, 30 days), after which it moves to a “to sort” folder.
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