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Man this hits close to home again, like squarely on my front porch.

The work of the archivist is the hardest and most important in the long term and the easiest to cut in the short term. And if it lives on the internet, it is destined to die. Why do I have all these screenshots and pdfs cluttering the corners of my hard drive? I don't know but they can all disappear from their source tomorrow. The same goes for all my rambling thoughts and feelings and observations and random little projects that could just as easily disappear from the earth when I go.

Take pictures, write something, make something, and leave something behind. Buy books and music and movies, all the things you value because they'll disappear as soon as it becomes profitable to make them disappear.

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