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How the impulse to preserve creates chaos

I screenshot conversations and funny posts constantly but my camera roll is so cluttered I can never find anything when I actually want to share it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The anxiety of losing moments drives compulsive capture that ultimately makes retrieval impossible through sheer volume.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”

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