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Digital File Management: The Good Mattress Syndrome
For almost everyone, file management is a die hard reality of technology. Most of us live and die by collections of “things” on our daily driver tools — our home computers, phones, laptops, workstations, tablets, cameras … pretty much every electronic device you own requires the transfer and manipulation.
So why is file management marginalized and ignored by so many people? You may be reading this now — trying to figure out what the heck I’m talking about.
It is the “good mattress” syndrome.
When I was in my youth, my new (and second) wife wanted to purchase a new mattress. Not just any mattress … a $2000 mattress.
There was a lot of discussion and such and in the end we negotiated down to a $1300 mattress — and that was under protest by me. It wasn’t until later that I realized that a good mattress isn’t just a luxury item.
It was a necessity.
After all, you spend HOW much of you life on that mattress? If you’re part of the national average of sleeping eight hours a day — that roughly translates into one-third of your life.
