Kris Brandow

I mean, it's kind of, I guess I see that question as the same as like, is there a world where you have too many books? The answer is, I think, in the simple, no. I think the way we could wind up in an effective too many docs, and I think we are already there to some degree, is if we don't have good cataloging systems.

I mean, it's kind of, I guess I see that question as the same as like, is there a world where you have too many books? The answer is, I think, in the simple, no. I think the way we could wind up in an effective too many docs, and I think we are already there to some degree, is if we don't have good cataloging systems.

One of the things that allows us to have so many books and actually be able to find them, like you think about libraries, like big libraries, like the Library of Congress. The reason you can find things is because they have very good cataloging systems, what's called bibliographic control.

One of the things that allows us to have so many books and actually be able to find them, like you think about libraries, like big libraries, like the Library of Congress. The reason you can find things is because they have very good cataloging systems, what's called bibliographic control.

They have good ways of saying, here's their metadata, here's what you can search for, here's how we arrange everything. And for the most part, we don't do any of that in tech.

They have good ways of saying, here's their metadata, here's what you can search for, here's how we arrange everything. And for the most part, we don't do any of that in tech.

We just kind of I mean, we talked about this actually on the episode of Fall Through that's going to be shipping on Monday after this episode ships about the fact that, you know, lots of people just store things as flat files. You just chuck a bunch of stuff into a wiki and then you just rely on the web search feature to find things and how much that falls over and how much that fails.

We just kind of I mean, we talked about this actually on the episode of Fall Through that's going to be shipping on Monday after this episode ships about the fact that, you know, lots of people just store things as flat files. You just chuck a bunch of stuff into a wiki and then you just rely on the web search feature to find things and how much that falls over and how much that fails.

And I think that if we don't develop good cataloging systems along with our increase in docs, we're going to find that it's very difficult to actually find the information that we want to search for the information we want. And I think in that case, yes, we do wind up with too many docs. But that is also a very fixable problem.

And I think that if we don't develop good cataloging systems along with our increase in docs, we're going to find that it's very difficult to actually find the information that we want to search for the information we want. And I think in that case, yes, we do wind up with too many docs. But that is also a very fixable problem.

And I believe that Oxide is running into this a little bit with your RFD system, where it's like you're trying to figure out how to find stuff.

And I believe that Oxide is running into this a little bit with your RFD system, where it's like you're trying to figure out how to find stuff.

And it's challenging because, you know, your search, I believe I talked about it on an episode when they're talking about RFDs, about how difficult it is to find things based on search because there isn't, as far as I know, a robust cataloging system for the RFDs, even though you've produced a very large number of them.

And it's challenging because, you know, your search, I believe I talked about it on an episode when they're talking about RFDs, about how difficult it is to find things based on search because there isn't, as far as I know, a robust cataloging system for the RFDs, even though you've produced a very large number of them.

Right, yeah, we need a librarian. That will always be something that baffles me about companies, especially large companies. If you go back 50 years, before we had digitized everything, every company had a team of corporate archivists because you had so much paper. You had all of this paper, boxes and boxes and boxes of paper. And you had to be able to find things.

Right, yeah, we need a librarian. That will always be something that baffles me about companies, especially large companies. If you go back 50 years, before we had digitized everything, every company had a team of corporate archivists because you had so much paper. You had all of this paper, boxes and boxes and boxes of paper. And you had to be able to find things.

And you couldn't just go to a terminal and just punch in some keywords. You had to go to somebody who could help you find it. So we had archivists and all these people that would organize this information so it was findable. And we went digital. And now we have orders of magnitude more information that our companies produce.

And you couldn't just go to a terminal and just punch in some keywords. You had to go to somebody who could help you find it. So we had archivists and all these people that would organize this information so it was findable. And we went digital. And now we have orders of magnitude more information that our companies produce.

And we're like, yeah, but we don't need all those people anymore because it's not physical. We are just like, oh, well, it should be easily searchable, even though search algorithms for digital search algorithms are very terrible at finding things if you haven't cataloged them.

And we're like, yeah, but we don't need all those people anymore because it's not physical. We are just like, oh, well, it should be easily searchable, even though search algorithms for digital search algorithms are very terrible at finding things if you haven't cataloged them.